1 Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred
2 to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes,
3 lists, sets and sorted sets.
5 You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string;
6 incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing set
7 intersection, union and difference; or getting the member with highest
8 ranking in a sorted set.
10 In order to achieve its outstanding performance, Redis works with an
11 in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, you can persist it either
12 by dumping the dataset to disk every once in a while, or by appending each
15 Redis also supports trivial-to-setup master-slave replication, with very
16 fast non-blocking first synchronization, auto-reconnection on net split