What is Redis
Redis, an open-source in-memory data structure store that stands for REmote DIctionary Server, is frequently used to create non-relational key-value databases and caches.
It’s crucial to understand that Redis is not a key-value database but rather a data structure store. Each key in a conventional key-value database is an arbitrary string that is connected to an uninterpreted string of bytes (which might be any kind of data—a string, an image, binary data, an integer or floating point number, etc.).
Redis and other data structure stores get rid of this restriction. A text or a more intricate data structure, like a list, set, hash, bit array, or stream, could be the key. This makes it possible for developers to benefit from several Redis use cases:
- Key-value database
- Cache
- Message broker
What does the name Redis mean?
- Redis stands for Remote Dictionary server.
- It is often referred to as a data structure server, since the keys can contain string, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.
What is Redis used for?
Redis is an advanced key-value store that can function as a NoSQL database or as a memory-cache store to improve performance when serving data that is stored in system memory.
- Caching
- Session Management
- Message Queuing
- Real-time Analytics
- Gaming
- IoT Networking
- Search and Query
- Geospatial Data
- Cross-System Data Management
- Faceted Search
How to interact with Redis?
- Once installed in a server, run the Redis CLI (Command Line Interface) to issue commands to Redis. while working on the CLI tool, your command-line prompt will change to
- Redis>
History
- Release in Early 2009
- By Salvatore Sanfilippo
- built in order to scale hhtp://lloogg.com/
- March 2010 – VMWare hired Sanfilippo to work full-time on Redis.
