Awesome Redis

A curated list of amazingly awesome redis and redis ecosystem resources. Inspired by Awesome PHP, Awesome Python and Awesome Sysadmin

• Awesome Redis
  • Redis
  • Community
  • Tutorial
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Debugging or Profiling
  • Logging
  • Use Cases
  • Top Questions on Stackoverflow
  • Most Stars Project on Github
  • Redis based Job Queues
  • Higher level libraries and tools
  • Redis Cheat Sheet
  • Redis Hosting
  • Commandline Tool
  • Redis Client
    • C
    • C sharp
    • C++
  • Erlang
  • Go
  • Haskell
    • Java
    • Lua
    • Matlab
    • Node.js
    • Objective-C
    • Perl
    • PHP
    • Python
    • Ruby
    • Rust
    • Scala
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Redis

• Redis - redis official website
• Antirez - blog of the redis author
• Documentation
• Redis Comands - The full list of commands implemented by Redis, along with thorough documentation for each of them
• FAQ - Some common questions about Redis.

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Community

• mailing list
• Freenode webchat
• London Redis Meetup Group
• San Francisco Meetup Group

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Tutorial

• 10-quick-tips-about-redis
• Redis: Zero to Master in 30 minutes
• Lua: A Guide for Redis Users
• Redis - Quick Guide
• Introduction to Redis data types - This is a good starting point to learn the Redis API and data model.
• Redis Cluster - a gentle introduction and setup guide to Redis Cluster
• Top 10 Redis Interview Questions
• Using Redis as a temporary cache for data shared by multiple independent processes

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Performance Monitoring

• RedisLive - Visualize your redis instances, analyze query patterns and spikes.
• redmon - A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring
• redis-stat - A real-time Redis monitoring tool
• redispapa - another redis monitor by using flask, angular, socket.io
• django-redisboard - Redis monitoring and inspection tool in django admin
• redis-faina - A query analyzer that parses Redis' MONITOR command for counter/timing stats about query patterns
• Migrator - A golang script which can be distributed as a binary to migrate data from one redis service to another on the fly

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Debugging or Profiling

• redis-lua-debugger - A Redis Lua script for debugging Redis Lua scripts
• Redis debugging guide - official Redis debugging guide

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Logging

• SLOWLOG subcommand - official command
• python-redis-log - A Python logging handler that publishes to redis pub/sub channels
• Redis Logging - Redis logging provides a logging backend for the Redis key-value store, as well as a dblog-like user interface to view watchdog entries.
• nginx redislog module - This is a high-performance nginx module for logging http requests into Redis database.
• logstash

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Use Cases

• Twitter - Real-Time Delivery Architecture at Twitter
• Twitter - How Twitter Uses Redis To Scale
• Weibo
• Tumblr
• Flickr
• Instagram
• Pinterest
• Youporn.com
• Line
• stackoverflow
• Github
• Discourse
• Digg
• Writing a simple Twitter clone with PHP and Redis - Design and implementation of a simple Twitter clone using PHP and the Redis key-value store
• bloom-redis - a simple redis-backed bloom-filter
• Auto complete with Redis - The full list of commands implemented by Redis, along with thorough documentation for each of them
• Using Redis as an LRU cache - How to configure and use Redis as a cache with a fixed amount of memory and auto eviction of keys.
• reds - light-weight, insanely simple full text search module for node.js - backed by Redis
• URL Shortener Service Using Redis - simple URL Shortener Service Using Redis

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Top Questions on Stackoverflow

• Memcached vs. Redis?
• What is Redis and what do I use it for?
• How do I delete everything in redis?
• What are the underlying data structures used for Redis?
• When to Redis? When to MongoDB?
• How to atomically delete keys matching a pattern using Redis
• Redis command to get all available keys?
• How much faster is Redis than mongoDB?
• Is memcached a dinosaur in comparison to Redis?

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Most Stars Project on Github

• resque - Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.
• node_redis - redis client for node
• twemproxy - A fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and redis
• redis-py - Redis Python Client
• kue - Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js.
• codis - redis cluster powered by go
• ssdb - SSDB - A fast NoSQL database, an alternative to Redis
• jedis - A blazingly small and sane redis java client
• redis-rb - A Ruby client library for Redis
• Balloons.IO - Balloons.IO is a web multi-room chat server and client ready to use. It’s built with the help of node.JS, Express, Socket.IO and Redis
• predis - Flexible and feature-complete PHP client library for Redis

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Redis based Job Queues

• rq - Minimalistic Python task queue. Supports only Redis. (Python)
• restmq - REST/JSON/HTTP based message queue
• resque - Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. (Ruby)
• rq-scheduler - A light library that adds job scheduling capabilities to rq
• Ost - Redis based queues and workers. (Ruby)
• HotQueue - a Python library that allows you to use Redis as a message queue within your Python programs.
• kue - Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js
• django-rq - A simple app that provides django integration for rq
• bull - A NodeJS persistent job and message queue based on Redis
• flask-rq - rq integration for Flask applications
• Celery - Python task queue. Supports multiple backends. (Python)
• redis-smq - A simple high-performance Redis message queue for Node.js.

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Higher level libraries and tools

• Fnordmetric - Redis/ruby-based realtime Event-Tracking app. (Ruby)

• Ohm - Object-hash mapping library for Redis. (Ruby)

• Kombu -Python AMQP Framework with redis support (Python)

• Sider - Python persistent object library based on Redis. (Python)

• Redis-objects - Map Redis types directly to Ruby objects. (Ruby)

• Redis-rdb-tools - Parse Redis dump.rdb files, Analyze Memory, and Export Data to JSON (Python)

• Rdb-parser - node.js asynchronous streaming parser for redis RDB database dumps. (Javascript)

• Redis-sync - A node.js redis replication slave toolkit (Javascript) (Javascript)

• Meerkat - Rack middleware for Server Sent Events with multiple backends. (Ruby) (Javascript)

• Redis-sampler - Sample a Redis DB to understand dataset composition. (Ruby)

• Recommendify - Ruby/Redis based recommendation engine (collaborative filtering). (Ruby)

• Redis-store - Namespaced Rack::Session, Rack::Cache, I18n and cache Redis stores for Ruby web frameworks. (Ruby)

• Redsmin - a developer oriented online administration and monitoring service for Redis and Redis cluster. Redsmin is trusted by more than 10K developers world-wide and manage thousands of Redis servers in real-time.

• RedisManager - Simple Mac Application to manage Redis Server

• Redmon - A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring. (Ruby)

• RedisWebManager - Web interface that allows you to manage easily your Redis instance (Ruby)

• Rollout - Conditionally roll out features with redis. (Ruby)

• Webdis - A Redis HTTP interface with JSON output. (C)

• Soulmate - Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting. (Ruby)

• Redis_failover - Redis Failover is a ZooKeeper-based automatic master/slave failover solution for Ruby. (Ruby)

• Redis-dump - Backup and restore your Redis data to and from JSON. Warning: alpha code. (Ruby)

• Sidekiq - Simple, efficient message processing for your Rails 3 application. (Ruby)

• Soulmate - Redis-backed service for fast autocompleting. (Ruby)

• Omhiredis - redis output plugin for rsyslog (rsyslog dev, and rsyslog head). (C)

• Mod_redis - An Apache HTTPD module for speaking to redis via HTTP (C)

• leaderboard - Leaderboards backed by Redis. (Ruby)

• Redis-rdb - A set of utilities to handle Redis .rdb files with Ruby. (Ruby)

• Lua-ohm - Lua Redis Object-hash-mapping and more (Lua)

• PHP-Resque -Port of Resque to PHP. (PHP)

• phpRedisAdmin - phpRedisAdmin is a simple web interface to manage Redis databases. (PHP)

• HighcoTimelineBundle - TimelineBundle is a Bundle which works with Symfony 2.* which provides a timeline for a subject as Facebook can do. (PHP)

• Stdnet - Redis data manager with advanced query and search API. (Python)

• Retools - Caching and locking helper library. (Python)

• Distributed locks with Redis - Distributed locks are a very useful primitive in many environments where different processes require to operate with shared resources in a mutually exclusive way.

• Redis-tools - Generate the Redis protocol, in raw format, in order to use 'redis-cli --pipe' command to massively and quickly insert/delete.... keys in a redis server. (Python)

• Redis-cluster-tool - redis-cluster-tool is a convenient and useful tool for redis cluster. It was primarily built to manage the redis cluster. (C)

• Rump - Hot-sync two Redis servers using dumps

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Redis Cheat Sheet

• cheat sheet -pdf reference with fine layout
• cheat sheet - Online or printable function reference for Redis.

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Redis Hosting

• linode
• redisgreen - With 24/7 Monitoring and Professional Support.
• redislabs -Great apps. Big performance. Little effort
• openredis - offer dependable Redis™ hosting
• redis to go - simple redis hosting
• redis4you - offering Redis hosting
• openredis - Dependable Redis Hosting
• rackspace - safe, scalable and supported
• scalechamp - Managed Redis as a Service provided by ScaleChamp on AWS, Hetzner, Azure, Linode, IBM, Scaleway, Alibaba Cloud, DigitalOcean, GCP, UpCloud, Vultr

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Commandline Tool

• iredis - Interactive Redis: A Terminal Client for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

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Redis Client

C

• hiredis - This is the official C client. Support for the whole command set, pipelining, event driven programming.

C sharp

• ServiceStack.Redis - This is a fork and improvement of the original C# client written by Miguel De Icaza.
• StackExchange.Redis - This .NET client was developed by Stack Exchange for very high performance needs (replacement to the earlier BookSleeve).

C++

• redis-client for C++ - full redis client commands, one redis command one redis function, including STRING, HASH, LIST, SET, ZSET, HLL, PUBSUB, TRANSACTION, SCRIPT, CONNECTION, SERVER, CLUSTER
• redis3m - A C++ wrapper of hiredis, with also connection pooling, high availability and ready-to-use patterns
• redisclient - A C++ asynchronous client based on boost::asio
• redox - Modern, asynchronous, and fast C++11 client for Redis
• SimpleRedisClient - Simple Redis client for C++

Erlang

• Eredis - Redis client with a focus on performance
• sharded_eredis - Wrapper around eredis providing process pools and consistent hashing
• Tideland Erlang/OTP Redis Client - A comfortable Redis client for Erlang/OTP support pooling, pub/sub and transactions.

Go

• Radix - MIT licensed Redis client
• Redigo - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database with support for Print-alike API, Pipelining (including transactions), Pub/Sub, Connection pooling, scripting
• go-redis - Type-safe Redis client for Golang

Haskell

• hedis - Supports the complete command set. Commands are automatically pipelined for high performance

Java

• Jedis
• Redisson - distributed and scalable Java data structures on top of Redis server
• aredis - Asynchronous, pipelined client based on the Java 7 NIO Channel API
• RedisClientredis client GUI tool

Lua

• redis-lua

Matlab

• redis-octave - A Redis client in pure Octave

Node.js

• ioredis - A delightful, performance-focused and full-featured Redis client. Supports Cluster, Sentinel, Pipelining and Lua Scripting
• node_redis - Recommended client for node

Objective-C

• ObjCHiredis - Static Library for iOS4 device and Simulator, plus Objective-C Framework for MacOS 10.5 and higher

Perl

• Redis - Perl binding for Redis database
• Redis::hiredis - Perl binding for the hiredis C client
• AnyEvent::Hiredis - Non-blocking client using the hiredis C library

PHP

• phpredis - This is a client written in C as a PHP module
• Predis - Mature and supported
• redis-async - Asynchronous redis client library for PHP

Python

• redis-py - Redis Python Client

Ruby

• redis-rb - Very stable and mature client. Install and require the hiredis gem before redis-rb for maximum performances

Rust

• redis-rb - A high and low level client library for Redis tracking Rust nightly

Scala

• scala-redis - Apparently a fork of the original client from @alejandrocrosa

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Resources

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Useful websites and articles

• Redis News Feed
• Redis Package
• Redis Wikipedia Article
• Redis网络资料汇总(Chinese)
• Redis Cheat Sheet - Online or printable function reference for Redis.
• Redis(Chinese)
• Redis Command Reference(Chinese)
• redis-3.0-annotation(Chinese)
• A Collection Of Redis Use Cases

Presentations

• Real World Redis
• wooga’s architecture: Facebook Games on MySQL and Redis
• Redis And python
• Redis 101

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Books

• Redis in Action
• Redis: The Definitive Guide
• The Little Redis Book
• Redis Cookbook
• Instant Redis Optimization How-to
• Instant Redis Persistence
• Seven Databases in Seven Weeks
• Mining the Social Web

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Courses

• Redis University

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Certifications

• Redis Certified Developer

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Other Awesome Lists

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