CakePHP 3.x and Redis as one of the main Database

Hello, I am new to CakePHP and I am wondering which is the best way to use Redis not as Cache but as a main Database with CakePHP 3.x. I have found a Plugin for Cake 2, but it seems to be incompatible with CakePHP 3.x (https://github.com/Oefenweb/cakephp-redis). Does anyone has a tipp? Thank

CakePHP 3.0 location for API-Access

Hello, I would like to use the API of OpenWeatherMap (http://openweathermap.org/api) in my CakePHP 3.x Application, but I am not sure where to put my API-Calls like "*getWeatherByCityname()*" in, because ' *Table*', '*Entity*' and '*Behaviour*' only belongs to relational Databases. Is there a