REDIS = REmote DIctionary Service
- Project started in 2009
- Created by Salvatore Sanfilippo
- Written in C
- Homepage: redis.io
- Try online: http://try.redis-db.com/
- NoSQL database
- Key-Value store
- Values: strings, lists, hashes, sets, ordered sets
- Drivers for loads of languages
- Open Source
- Swiss Army Knife of DBs
- Many utility features
- Data Structures
- Pubsub & blocking queues
- Scriptable in Lua
Pros:
- All in memory
Cons:
- All in memory
- COMMAND arg1 arg2 arg3
- db.command(arg1, arg2, arg3);