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brew install redis v8.8.0 AGPL-3.0-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND MIT AND (CC0-1.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)

In-memory key-value database with persistence, pub/sub, and Lua scripting; runs as a standalone daemon or cluster.

Why you might care

Redis is the go-to choice for caching, sessions, real-time analytics, and message queues in web applications. It's single-threaded but extremely fast; use it when you need sub-millisecond latency and atomic operations on shared state. Often a build/runtime dependency for web frameworks and microservices.

Categories

key-value-store message-queue database caching

Alternatives

Memcached etcd RocksDB DragonflyDB
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365-day · #177

Runtime dependencies

openssl@3

Links

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