简介

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes with radius queries and streams. Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions and different levels of on-disk persistence, and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster.
以上是官网的一段英文简介。
redis是一个开源的、使用C语言编写的、支持网络交互的、可基于内存也可持久化的Key-Value数据库。
redis的官网地址，非常好记，是redis.io。（特意查了一下，域名后缀io属于国家域名，是british Indian Ocean territory，即英属印度洋领地）
目前，Vmware在资助着redis项目的开发和维护。
作者Salvatore Sanfilippo，来自意大利的西西里岛，现在居住在卡塔尼亚。目前供职于Pivotal公司。
作者github地址:http://github.com/antirez