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<b>Features: Contents</b><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Features (DRAFT)">Features (DRAFT)</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Speed">Speed</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Persistence">Persistence</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Support for Data Structures">Support for Data Structures</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Atomic Operations">Atomic Operations</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Variety of Supported Languages">Variety of Supported Languages</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Master/Slave Replication">Master/Slave Replication</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Sharding">Sharding</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Hot Backups">Hot Backups</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Simple to Install, Setup and Manage">Simple to Install, Setup and Manage</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Portable">Portable</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#Liberal Licensing">Liberal Licensing</a><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#What's next?">What's next?</a>
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<h1><a name="Features (DRAFT)">Features (DRAFT)</a></h1>Checking Redis for the first time? Here your will find the most important features, and pointers to a lot more information.<h2><a name="Speed">Speed</a></h2>Redis is written in ANSI C, and loads the whole dataset in memory, so it is wicked <i><b>fast</b>!</i> Up to 110,000 <a href="SETs.html">SETs</a>/second, 81,000 GETs/second can be achieved in an entry level Linux box. Read more about Redis <a href="Speed.html">Speed</a>.<br/><br/>Also Redis supports <a href="Pipelining.html">Pipelining</a> of commands and <a href="MultiBulkCommands.html">getting and setting m&Atilde;&ordm;ltiple values in a single command</a> to speed up communication with the client libraries.<h2><a name="Persistence">Persistence</a></h2>While all the data lives in memory, changes are <i>asynchronously</i> saved on disk using flexible policies based on elapsed time and/or number of updates since last save. <br/><br/>If you can't afford losing some data, starting on version 1.1 (currently in beta but you can download it from the Git repository) Redis supports an append-only file persistence mode. Check more on <a href="Persistence.html">Persistence</a>, or read the <a href="AppendOnlyFileHowto.html">AppendOnlyFileHowto</a> for more information.<h2><a name="Support for Data Structures">Support for Data Structures</a></h2>Values in Redis can be <a href="Strings.html">Strings</a> as in a conventional key-value store, but also <a href="Lists.html">Lists</a>, <a href="Sets.html">Sets</a>, and <a href="SortedSets.html">SortedSets</a> (to be support in <a href="RoadMap.html">version 1.1</a>). This data types allow pushing/poping elements, or adding/removing them, also perform server side union, intersection, difference between sets, and so forth depending on the types. Redis supports different kind of sorting abilities for <a href="Sets.html">Sets</a> and <a href="Lists.html">Lists</a>.<br/><br/>You can think in Redis as a <b>Data Structures Server</b>, that allows you to model non trivial problems. Read <a href="DataTypes.html">Data Types</a> to learn more about the way Redis handle <a href="Strings.html">Strings</a>, and the <a href="Commands.html">Commands</a> supported by <a href="Lists.html">Lists</a>, <a href="Sets.html">Sets</a> and <a href="SortedSets.html">SortedSets</a><h2><a name="Atomic Operations">Atomic Operations</a></h2>Redis operations working on the different Data Types are <b>atomic</b>, so setting or increasing a key, adding and removing elements from a set, increasing a counter will all be accomplished safely.<h2><a name="Variety of Supported Languages">Variety of Supported Languages</a></h2>Ruby, Python, Twisted Python, PHP, Erlang, Tcl, Perl, Lua, Java, Scala, Clojure, choose your poison. Check the list of <a href="SupportedLanguages.html">Supported Languages</a> for all the details.<br/><br/>If your favorite language is not supported yet, you can write your own client library, as the <a href="ProtocolSpecification.html">Protocol</a> is pretty simple.<h2><a name="Master/Slave Replication">Master/Slave Replication</a></h2>Redis supports a very simple and fast Master/Slave replication. Is so simple it takes only one line in the <a href="Configuration.html">configuration file</a> to set it up, and 21 seconds for a Slave to complete the initial sync of 10 MM key set in a Amazon EC2 instance.<br/><br/>Read more about Master/Slave <a href="Replication.html">Replication</a>. <h2><a name="Sharding">Sharding</a></h2>Distributing the dataset across multiple Redis instances is easy in Redis, as in any other key-value store. And this depends basically on the <a href="Supported.html">Languages</a> client libraries being able to do so. <br/><br/>Read more about <a href="Sharding.html">Sharding</a> if you want to know more abour distributing data and workload in Redis.<h2><a name="Hot Backups">Hot Backups</a></h2>TODO<h2><a name="Simple to Install, Setup and Manage">Simple to Install, Setup and Manage</a></h2>Installing Redis requires little more than downloading it, uncompressing it and runn
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