Redis is an in-memory key-value store. Aside from storing simple string-string mappings, it also supports a lot of data structures like sets, lists and queues.
It’s pretty cool.
Useful links
- Project link https://redis.io/
- Redis key eviction https://redis.io/docs/reference/eviction/
Alternatives
A lot of Redis alternatives support the Redis protocol (RESP). But there are also ones with different network protocols.
Redis-compatible
Not compatible
License
Redis recently switched to a closed-source license. There are many forks, better to move to one of them. Redict is one such fork.
