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Redis primarily works with data in memory and provides caching, sessions, key-value and document data, time series, search, queues, and Pub/Sub in one server. Applications manipulate real-time data structures through commands and language-specific clients.
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Choose structures and processing features by use case
Strings, lists, sets, hashes, sorted sets, JSON, and other structures can implement counters, queues, leaderboards, and rate limits. Streams and Pub/Sub, full-text, vector, and geospatial search, aggregation, expiration, and eviction policies are also part of the surface.
Sources: [1]
For latency-sensitive shared state and event flows
It is a candidate for frequently read caches, sessions, rankings, job or event transport, search, and short-term state for AI applications. Operations can be selected among Redis Open Source, self-managed commercial software, and Redis Cloud.
Sources: [1]
Design for memory, persistence, and distribution licenses
Because data is kept primarily in memory, each workload needs explicit limits, expiration and eviction behavior, persistence, and recovery planning. Feature differences between Redis Open Source and commercial offerings also matter. The README states that certain Intel vector optimizations are incompatible with AGPLv3 or SSPLv1 use and are available only when Redis Open Source is distributed under RSALv2.
Sources: [1]
Official sources
- [1]Redis README(2026-09-12)
Supplemental curator note
Selected for rebuilding its positioning around search, vectors, and AI after a licensing crisis and competitive fork.
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GitHub Topics
- database
- key-value
- nosql
- redis
- caching
- distributed-systems
- open-source
- real-time
- time-series
- cache
- in-memory
- in-memory-database
GitHub dataView detailed GitHub data
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- 76,347
- Forks
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- Watchers
- 2,485
- Open issues
- 2,262
- Contributors
- 382
- Primary language
- C
- License
- Not determined
- Repository last updated
- Sep 10, 2026
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