How to use Redis as a distributed key value store

Question

My requirements -

1. Distributed applications sitting on different machines doing set/get operation
2. Ability to add servers and rebalance certain regions of data. [ A.K.A. - consistent hashing ]

Issues - Looking through REDIS client which boast of implementing consistent hashing - JEDIS,etc. They seem to be storing the key to shardinfo in memory thereby not sure ahow [1] will work.

Answer 1

This blog post from the author of redis might be helpful. As stated there, for the moment you can shard on the client, which suffers from maintainability problems.