Redis made Fun and Easy: Part 1

Lets make learning Redis fun and easy.

What is Redis: a open source database.

Why Redis: Major feature stores data in memory, basically it means very fast access to data.

MySQL stores data on disk, it means more slow data access compared to Redis.

When Redis: When you need fast access of data. Caching is very popular use case of Redis.

How to Install Redis

Mac Os: Follow these simple two steps

Install Homebrew

Install Redis

brew install redis

Start Redis server: Default config

redis-server

Start Redis server: with custom config file

redis-server <path to file>/redis.config