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Overview
go-redis is the official Redis client library for Go. It provides command APIs, automatic connection pooling, Pub/Sub, pipelines and transactions, Sentinel, Cluster, client-side caching, scripting, and credential providers.
Features and best fit
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Key features
Use standalone, Sentinel, and Cluster Redis through one Go client ecosystem
Client, failover/Sentinel, and Cluster configurations expose Redis commands together with Pub/Sub, transactions, and Lua scripting.
Sources: [2]
Best fit
Fits Go backends using Redis for caching, sessions, messaging, or coordination
It is useful when applications want an official client across standalone and clustered Redis deployments for caches, rate limiting, sessions, Pub/Sub, streams, and related backend workloads.
Sources: [2]
Before adoption
v9.23.0 raises the minimum to Go 1.26 and changes pipeline pooling defaults
The v9.23.0 go.mod requires Go 1.26. This release adds dedicated pipeline pools and sets AutoPipelineOptions.MaxBatchBytes to 128 KiB by default. Validate connection counts, memory, latency, and pipeline throughput under production-like load; PipelinePoolSize: -1 restores the previous single-pool behavior when needed.
Official sources
- [1]redis/go-redis — GitHub repository(2026-10-06)
- [2]go-redis v9.23.0 — README(2026-10-06)
- [3]go-redis v9.23.0 — go.mod(2026-10-06)
- [4]go-redis v9.23.0 release(2026-10-06)
- [5]go-redis BSD-2-Clause license(2026-10-06)
Supplemental curator note
The official Redis Go client covers standalone, Sentinel, and Cluster deployments in one ecosystem. Pooling, pipelining, timeouts, retries, credentials, and client-side caching directly affect performance and failure behavior, so validate them under representative load.
Try it in 3 steps
- 1
Get the source
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redis/go-redis.git - 2
Enter the repository
cd go-redis - 3
Check the official steps
Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.
find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Growth
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22,258 Stars
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Development activity
Last 90 days · weekly
- Commits (last 30 days)
- 36
- Open PRs
- 49
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GitHub Topics
- go
- golang
- redis
- redis-client
- redis-cluster
- Stars
- 22,258
- Forks
- 2,604
- Watchers
- 253
- Open issues
- 31
- Contributors
- 392
- Owner type
- Organization
- Primary language
- Go
- License
- BSD-2-Clause
- Repository last updated
- Oct 6, 2026
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