Redis
In-memory key–value database used as a cache and message broker; created by Salvatore Sanfilippo.
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- Redis is an in-memory key–value database, used as a distributed cache and message broker, with optional durability.
- Salvatore Sanfilippo started it in 2009 and maintained it until 2020.
- The company that sponsored it, Redis Labs, renamed itself Redis in 2021.
- The code moved from the BSD licence to source-available licences in 2024, and version 8.0 (May 2025) added the AGPL as a third option.
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- Created
- 2009, by Salvatore Sanfilippo1
- Licence
- BSD until 2024; then RSALv2 or SSPLv1; from 8.0 (1 May 2025) also AGPL1
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