Intro to Redis — with Docker Compose
5 min readNov 29, 2020
What is Redis?
Redis is a high throughput, in-memory key-value store used for fast lookup. It supports common data structures such as strings, lists, sets, hashes, and more (redislabs). Since Redis stores data in-memory, it does not face the same read/write (I/O) limitations and performance issues that databases face with hard disks. Although Redis stores and accesses data in-memory, it can…