Supported Languages (DRAFT)

Wondering if you can use Redis from your favorite language? Well here is the definitive guide to the available client libraries.

This libraries are intended to expose Redis commands, but you also have the option to use some higher level libraries that provide a Object Hash Mappings pretty much the same idea implemented by a classic ORM.

TODO

• Add http://github.com/madsimian/em-redis
• Add http://github.com/besquared/redis-datastructures
• Add http://github.com/sma/redis-node-client

Features Support Matrix

The following matrix should give you a quick overviwe of the state of the different client libraries existing for each supported language.

The core command set is the one of Version 1.0, while Sharding and Pipelining are convenient client side features not tied to any Redis server version.

Version 1.1

Compatible client libraries are expected to implement the command sets specified in Version 1.0 plus:

• String: MSET, MSETNX.
• List: RPOPLPUSH.
• Sorted Set (ZSET): ZADD, ZREM, ZRANGE, ZREVRANGE, ZRANGEBYSCORE, ZCARD, ZSCORE.

Version 1.0

Compatible client libraries are expected to implement the following command sets:

• String: GET, SET, SETNX, DEL, EXISTS, INCR, DECR, MGET, INCRBY, DECRBY, GETSET, TYPE.
• List: RPUSH, LPUSH, RPOP, LPOP, LLEN, LINDEX, LSET, LRANGE, LTRIM, LREM.
• Set: SADD, SREM, SMOVE, SISMEMBER, SCARD, SPOP, SINTER, SINTERSTORE, SUNION, SUNIONSTORE, SDIFF, SDIFFSTORE, SMEMBERS.
• Keyspace: KEYS, RANDOMKEY, RENAME, RENAMENX, DBSIZE, EXPIRE, TTL.
• Databases: SELECT, MOVE, FLUSHDB, FLUSHALL.
• Sort: SORT
• Connection: AUTH, QUIT?. ???
• Persistence: SAVE, BGSAVE, LASTSAVE, SHUTDOWN?. ???
• Server: INFO, MONITOR? SLAVEOF? ???

Language	Name	Sharding	Pipelining	1.1	1.0
ActionScript 3	as3redis	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Clojure	redis-clojure	No	No	Partial	Yes
Common Lisp	CL-Redis	No	No	No	Yes
Erlang	erldis	No	Looks like	No	Looks like
Go	Go-Redis	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Haskell	haskell-redis	No	No	No	Yes
Java	JDBC-Redis	No	No	No	Yes
Java	JRedis	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Java	Jedis	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
LUA	redis-lua	No	No	Yes	Yes
Perl	Redis Client	No	No	No	Yes
Perl	AnyEvent::Redis	No	No	No	Yes
PHP	Redis PHP Bindings	No	No	No	Yes
PHP	phpredis (C)	No	No	No	Yes
PHP	Predis	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PHP	Redisent	Yes	No	No	Yes
Python	Python Client	No	No	No	Yes
Python	py-redis	No	No	Partial	Yes
Python	txredis	No	No	No	Yes
Ruby	redis-rb	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Scala	scala-redis	Yes	No	No	Yes
TCL	TCL	No	No	Yes	Yes

Client Libraries Reference

as3 (ActionScript 3)

• An ActionScript 3 (Flash) library for Redis.
• Repository: http://github.com/claus/as3redis
• Author: Claus Wahlers, @cwahlers.

redis-clojure (Clojure)

• A Clojure client library for the key-value storage system Redis.
• Repository: http://github.com/ragnard/redis-clojure
• Author: Ragnar Dahlén, @ragge.

CL-Redis (Common Lisp)

• Common Lisp client library for Redis, an advanced key/value store.
• Home Page: http://www.cliki.net/cl-redis
• Author: Mahmud, @BigThingist.

erldis (Erlang)

• Client protocol for redis key-value store.
• Author: Valentino Volonghi, @dialtone_.
• Repository: http://bitbucket.org/adroll/erldis/

Go-Redis (Go)

• Client protocol for redis key-value store.
• Author: Joubin Houshyar, @SunOf27.
• Repository: http://github.com/alphazero/Go-Redis

haskell-redis (Haskell)

• A Haskell binding for the Redis database.
• Author: Alvaro Videla, @old_sound.
• Repository:

Java

JDBC-Redis

• JDBC-Redis is Java driver using the JDBC interface for Redis Database. This project doesn't aim for a complete implementation of the JDBC specification since Redis isn't a relational database, but should provide a familiar interface to Java developers interact with Redis.
• Repository: http://code.google.com/p/jdbc-redis/

JRedis

• Java Client and Connectors for Redis JCA compliant. Currently offers a complete functioning Synchronous connector, Asynchronous connection and pipelining support under heavy development.
• Author: Joubin Houshyar, @SunOf27.
• Home: http://code.google.com/p/jredis/
• Repository: http://github.com/alphazero/jredis

Jedis

• Jedis is a small and sane Redis client for Java. It aims to be easier to use by providing a more natural API. It currently supports the binary-safe protocol and pipelining. Sharding and connection pooling is on the way.
• Author: Jonathan Leibiusky, @xetorthio.
• Repository: http://github.com/xetorthio/jedis

redis-lua (Lua)

• A Lua client library for the redis key value storage system.
• Author: Daniele Alessandri, @jol1hahn.
• Repository: http://github.com/nrk/redis-lua

Perl

Perl Client

• Perl binding for Redis database.
• Author: Dobrica Pavlinusic, @dpavlin.
• Repository: http://svn.rot13.org/index.cgi/Redis

AnyEvent::Redis

• Non-blocking Redis client.
• Author: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, @miyagawa.
• Repository: http://github.com/miyagawa/AnyEvent-Redis/

PHP

Redis PHP Bindings

• Simple default binding in Redis main repository. No longer under active development.
• Author: Ludovico Magnocavallo, @ludo.
• Repository: http://code.google.com/p/redis/source/browse/#svn/trunk/client-libraries/php

phpredis

• This extension provides an API for communicating with Redis database, a persistent key-value database with built-in net interface written in ANSI-C for Posix systems.
• Author: Alfonso Jimenez , (@alfonsojimenez), Nicolas Favre-Félix and Nasreddine Bouafif.
• Repository: http://github.com/owlient/phpredis

Predis

• A flexible and feature-complete PHP client library for the Redis key-value database. Predis is currently a work-in-progress and it targets PHP >= 5.3, though it is highly due to be backported to PHP >= 5.2.6 as soon as the public API and the internal design on the main branch will be considered stable enough.
• Author: Daniele Alessandri, @jol1hahn
• Repository: http://github.com/nrk/predis/

Redisent

• Redisent is a simple, no-nonsense interface to the Redis key-value store for modest developers. Due to the way it is implemented, it is flexible and tolerant of changes to the Redis protocol.
• Author: Justin Poliey, @justinpoliey
• Repository: http://github.com/jdp/redisent

Python

Python Client

• Simple Python client in Redis main repository. No longer under active development.
• Author: Ludovico Magnocavallo, @ludo.
• Repository: http://code.google.com/p/redis/source/browse/#svn/trunk/client-libraries/python

py-redis

• Redis Python Client.
• Author: McCurdy, @andymccurdy.
• Repository: http://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py

txredis

• Python/Twisted client for Redis key-value store
• Author: Dorian Raymer, @dio_rian.
• PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/txredis/0.1.1

redis-rb (Ruby)

• A Ruby client library for the redis key value storage engine.
• Author: Ezra Zygmuntowicz, @ezmobius.
• Repository: http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb

scala-redis (Scala)

• A scala library for connecting to a redis server, or a cluster of redis nodes using consistent hashing on the client side.
• Author: Alejandro Crosa, @alejandrocrosa.
• Repository: http://github.com/acrosa/scala-redis

Tcl

• The official version is included in the Redis tarball since it's maintained by Salvatore.
• Author: Salvatore Sanfilippo, @antirez
• Repository: http://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/master/redis.tcl