Big Data

Redis – in-memory data structure store

Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store in a similar vein to memcache but the dataset is non-volatile. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

Redis is a TCP server using the client-server model and what is called a Request/Response protocol.

Redis offers many different ways to do one straightforward thing: store a value (“antirez”) to a key (“redis”).

Features include:

  • Easy to set up.
  • Native support for atomically manipulating and querying data structures such as lists and sets.
  • Very simple to use and configure master-slave replication that allows slave Redis servers to be exact copies of master servers.
  • Redis Virtual Memory which allows users to grow their dataset beyond RAM limitations.
  • Special encoding of small aggregate data types.
  • Loads and mantains the whole dataset into memory, but the dataset is persistent.
  • Supports setting timeouts to keys so that this key will be automatically removed when a given amount of time passes.
  • Multiple databases with commands to atomically move keys from one database to the other.
  • MULTI/EXEC family of commands.
  • Popping from a list in a blocking fashion.
  • Publish messages onto channels and subscribe to receive all messages that are published on channels.
  • Unix domain socket support.
  • Syslog support.

Website: redis.io
Support: Documentation
Developer: Salvatore Sanfilippo
License: BSD license

Redis is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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