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MC2 works with two types of Redis distributed objects: string and map collection only.
Each cache entry in MC2 is bound to a separate cache and key in that cache, so to get/put a value to cache we should , specify cache name and key.
But in Redis, each object is bound to the name that is used as a key.
Map
Redis supports many objects such as object, map, set, list, or queue. Therefore you can use a java map object as a value in Redis.
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