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Redis
The real-time data platform — in-memory DB + cache + vector + search
Redis Cloud managed Redis. In-memory DB + cache + search + vector. Free 30 MB + Essentials $5/mo + Pro $200/mo. Active-Active multi-region, Auto-Tiering.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 30 MB. Single DB. Community support. AWS + GCP only. |
| Redis OSS | Free | BSD-licensed Redis (or source-available RSALv2 for newer). Self-host free. |
| Essentials | $5/mo | From $5/mo. 250 MB to 100 GB. SAML SSO, RBAC, 99.99% uptime. |
| Pro | $200/mo | From $200/mo. Dedicated. Active-Active multi-region. Auto-tiering. 99.999% uptime. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom annual. SOC2, HIPAA, private deployment. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | active active | Multi-region active-active (CRDT) on Pro+ | Global replication |
| — | auto tiering | RAM + SSD tiering for TB-scale workloads at lower cost | Auto-tiering |
| — | data structures | Strings, Hashes, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Streams, Bitmaps, HyperLogLog, Geo | Data structures |
| — | license 7x | RSALv2 + SSPLv1 for core since 2024 (not open source per OSI but source-available) | License change |
| — | modules | RedisSearch, RedisJSON, RedisTimeSeries, RedisBloom (now Redis Stack bundled) | Modules |
| — | openai compat | Redis as vector store for RAG apps | AI use cases |
| — | persistence | AOF + snapshot (RDB) persistence | Persistence modes |
| — | vector search | Built-in vector search with HNSW + cosine/L2/IP | Vector search |
Features
- Active-Active (CRDT) — Multi-region live-write replication.
- Auto-Tiering (Flex) — RAM + SSD tiered storage.
- Bitmaps + Bitfields — Compact boolean storage.
- Geo — Geospatial queries on lat/lon.
- Hashes — Field-value maps per key.
- HyperLogLog — Probabilistic cardinality.
- Lists — Linked list — push/pop/range.
- Lua Scripting — Server-side Lua + Functions.
- Pub/Sub — Channel-based messaging.
- RedisBloom — Bloom + Cuckoo + Count-Min Sketch + TopK.
- Redis Cluster — Horizontal sharding.
- RediSearch — Full-text + vector search engine.
- RedisInsight — Official GUI for Redis.
- RedisJSON — Native JSON document support.
- RedisTimeSeries — Time-series data type.
- Replication — Primary-replica async replication.
- Sets — Unique element sets.
- Sorted Sets (ZSet) — Score-ranked sets for leaderboards.
- Streams — Append-only log (Kafka-like).
- Strings — Primitive + binary-safe key-value.
- Transactions (MULTI/EXEC) — Atomic command batches.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| sdk-go | go-redis | sdk | 9.x |
| sdk-java | Jedis + Lettuce | sdk | — |
| sdk-node | node-redis | sdk | 4.x |
| redis-cli | redis-cli | cli | 7.x |
| rest-api | Redis Cloud API | rest | v1 |
| redisinsight | RedisInsight GUI | other | — |
| sdk-python | redis-py | sdk | 5.x |
| sdk-rust | redis-rs | sdk | 0.x |
| redis-protocol | RESP protocol | other | — |
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