

We will need to download the MSI from MS Open Tech, the latest version provided by MSOpenTech is 3.2.100 released in 2016. To start off lets try to get Redis running on our Windows machine first. In this series of post I will introduce Redis and it basic functionality using C# and node.js sample code.

Redis officially runs on Linux and not officially supported on Windows but MS Open Tech has been working with the Redis community to build a production-ready Windows port of Redis, including 64-bit support, an installer for Windows Azure, NuGet support, and much more. According to the monthly ranking by, Redis is the most popular key-value store. The development of Redis has been sponsored by Pivotal since May 2013 before that, it was sponsored by VMware. The programming language Redis is written in is ANSI C. In the above prompt, 127.0.0.1 is machines IP address and 6379 is the port on which Redis server is running. Redis is well known for high performance, flexibility, provides a rich set of data structures, and a simple straightforward API. Execute the following command: redis-cli. Redis ( REmote DIctionay Server) is a very popular open-source, networked, in-memory, key-value data store, sometimes referred to as a data structure server which also comes with optional durability.

What is Redis – Installing Redis on Windows
