What is Redis

​​​​​​Redis stands for Remote Dictionary Server, Redis is an open-source advanced key-value storage in-memory NoSql database.  More about Redis is as follows:

• Redis is an open-source and BSD licensed and key-value storage database.
• Redis is also being used as a data structure server.
• In Redis, keys can contain data structures such as strings, lists, hashes, sets, sorted sets.
• Redis is in-memory key-value storage with persistence.
• Redis is written in C
• Redis is a NoSQL Database

Use of Redis:

• Redis is used as a caching server to improve performance.
• Redis is used as a key-value storage NoSQL database.
• Redis is used as a message broker.