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Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

165 mentions on Hacker News by 142 people: 33 stories, 132 comments · first 2009-09-03 · latest 2020-06-30

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  1. On https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/3.0 branch, it shows "This branch is 1004 commits ahead, 1252 commits behind unstable".
    comment by devy · 2015-04-01 · in Redis 3.0.0 is out
  2. …have a thousand engineers. [1] http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/36436-tim-s... [2] https://github.com/antirez/redis/graphs/contributors
    comment by nemothekid · 2015-03-16 · in Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video]
  3. …from Matt Stancliff, I wonder what the rationale was. Edit - particularly galling given this graph https://github.com/antirez/redis/graphs/contributors
    comment by phpnode · 2015-03-10 · in Redis Conference 2015 Recap
  4. ▲ 14
    “We assumed every user had an IQ greater than 42”
    story by marcuscog · 2015-02-26 · 14 comments
  5. ▲ 2
    Example Redis binds to just 127.0.0.1
    story by jamiesonbecker · 2015-02-20 · 2 comments
  6. Read the code yourself here: https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/dict.c (It's a classic hashmap.) JSON in binary format? You mean BSON? Just use MongoDB at that point, or PostgreSQL with JSON support. Redis has tables to an…
    comment by striking · 2015-02-19 · in Ask HN: What internal data structures does redis use to make it so fast?
  7. …(which has lot's of good information). Also learn some Tcl by reading the redis test suite here, ` https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/tests' .
    comment by YAYERKA · 2015-02-12 · in I'm thinking of going full code-hipster and learning Tcl
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    Regexp-based DMCA takedowns claim another victim
    story by Fede_V · 2015-01-10 · 0 comments
  9. Direct link: https://github.com/antirez/redis/ Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6552680
    comment by rattray · 2014-12-23 · in Salvatore Sanfilippo, the author of Redis: from Sicily with talent and passion
  10. ▲ 1
    Redis – First Commit Tree
    story by film42 · 2014-11-25 · 0 comments
  11. …way, so there is already a feature work in progress in order to support the Stripe-alike use case: https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/2087
    comment by antirez · 2014-10-28 · in Game day exercises at Stripe
  12. Then you'll love his code. Redis has some of the nicest C code I've ever seen: https://github.com/antirez/redis
    comment by temuze · 2014-10-28 · in Diskless replication: a few design notes
  13. ▲ 1
    Improving redis ZUNIONSTORE by orders of magnitudes.
    story by kauphy · 2014-06-06 · 0 comments
  14. I've heard lots of people sing praises for Redis source - https://github.com/antirez/redis . A cursory look into the source shows a very well documented code-base. It's one of the top items in my to-read-some-day list. Salvatore is an…
    comment by pcx · 2014-04-17 · in Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?
  15. This is awesome on so many different levels. Check out the implementation: https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/hyperlogl...
    comment by dscrd · 2014-04-01 · in Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog
  16. For more context pieter's original pull request is here: https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/579
    comment by aitskovi · 2013-10-29 · in Finally Redis collections are iterable
  17. …If we counted normally, then on a shrink we would end up skipping parts of the old table. Lines https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/dict.c#L7... explain it perfectly, now I understand it. Looking at the code, the increment…
    comment by Robin_Message · 2013-10-29 · in Finally Redis collections are iterable
  18. …log/2012/01/12/flake-a-decentralized-k-... [5] https://blog.twitter.com/2010/announcing-snowflake [6] https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/295#issuecomment-46734...
    comment by klapinat0r · 2013-10-28 · in Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
  19. …of shared memory used by whitedb, it could be that its pages are locked and immune to swapping. [1] https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/1177
    comment by yid · 2013-10-25 · in WhiteDB – Lightweight NoSQL database written in C, operating in main memory
  20. …for C code dating from past, say 2000. Also, one thing that made a negative impression on me is https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/adlist.c : /* Free the whole list. * * This function can't fail. */ void listRelease(list…
    comment by Someone · 2013-10-15 · in A quick look at the Redis source code
  21. …work. You can tell Salvatore cares and has passion for what he does just by looking at his work. https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/src
    comment by rdtsc · 2013-10-15 · in A quick look at the Redis source code
  22. Redis - https://github.com/antirez/redis Edit: GitHub actually has a good list of trending repositories that you can filter by language. Most C projects seem to be libraries, but you might be able to glean something interesting -…
    comment by nleach · 2013-09-19 · in The Architecture of Open Source Applications
  23. …them in a concise manner that omits structure overhead. Source: the source code of Redis itself https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/ziplist.c , Redis documentation: http://redis.io/topics/memory-optimization , and/or my…
    comment by DrJosiah · 2013-09-01 · in Save Redis memory with large list compression
  24. …(which is itself a 5MB static binary). This makes things like this potentially possible: $ docker run git://github.com/antirez/redis Voila, you are running Redis - built and configured to the specifications of Salvatore himself.
    comment by shykes · 2013-07-05 · in Create Dockerfiles for easily buildable Docker containers
  25. …, and I've submitted a patch to Redis that makes it even more efficient ( https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/469 ).
    comment by gtrubetskoy · 2013-03-21 · in From 1.5 GB to 50 MB: The Story of my Redis Database
  26. …to subscribe to keyspace events, which includes keys expiring (with millisecond resolution). https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/594 psubscribe __keyevent@0__:expired cron_* psetex cron_run-me-in-1s 1000 0
    comment by thezilch · 2013-03-16 · in Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron
  27. …of incrementally rehashing hash table in "dict.c" file. Very simple to understand code. https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/dict.h https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/dict.c As you can see no rocket science…
    comment by antirez · 2013-02-03 · in C++ containers that save memory and time
  28. ▲ 3
    Redis 2.6.5
    story by dotmanish · 2012-11-28 · 0 comments
  29. ▲ 2
    Redis 2.6.5 released
    story by chedar · 2012-11-22 · 0 comments
  30. ▲ 2
    Redis 2.6 is out (stable)
    story by salimane · 2012-10-23 · 0 comments
  31. Thanks, perhaps the design is even more evident here -> https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/dict.h
    comment by antirez · 2012-10-01 · in Myths about Hash Tables
  32. https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/src/dict.c
    comment by aaronblohowiak · 2012-10-01 · in Myths about Hash Tables
  33. …going forward with my ruby skills. It's nice, clean, commented, not too big, and useful. * Redis - https://github.com/antirez/redis - lots of data structure implementations. Antirez just writes C so nicely. anet.c has networking, TCP bits,…
    comment by radagaisus · 2012-09-24 · in Reading Other People's Code
  34. redis: https://github.com/antirez/redis/
    comment by matthewowen · 2012-07-21 · in Ask HN: What are the top open source software written in C?
  35. Redis (C): https://github.com/antirez/redis Underscore (JS): http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/docs/underscore.h... Backbone (JS): http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone.html
    comment by andrewjshults · 2012-05-25 · in Best code repos to learn from?
  36. …code. I think a good example you can learn a lot from is Redis[1]. Also written in C. [1] https://github.com/antirez/redis //edit: fixed typo
    comment by fallenhitokiri · 2012-05-25 · in My first C program: simple process supervisor like daemontools/runit in 359 LoC
  37. ▲ 4
    Redis new commands: BITOP and BITCOUNT
    story by pixelcort · 2012-05-20 · 0 comments
  38. …according to the config file comments, slaves are now read-only by default. More explanation here: https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/redis.conf
    comment by pjscott · 2012-04-27 · in Redis 2.6.0 RC1 Released
  39. …the whole VM deprecated thing will come up, here's a pretty awesomely informative recent status: https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/254
    comment by quink · 2012-03-26 · in Redis persistence demystified
  40. Looks like there are release notes available here: https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/2.6/00-RELEASENOTES And there's a 2.6 milestone here: https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues?milestone=1&stat...
    comment by phinze · 2012-03-10 · in Say welcome to the Redis 2.6 branch
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    Say welcome to the Redis 2.6 branch
    story by tilt · 2012-03-10 · 4 comments
  42. Impressively, the Redis code actually lives up to the lofty rhetoric. https://github.com/antirez/redis It is some of the best C code that I've seen.
    comment by pjscott · 2012-02-04 · in The Redis Manifesto
  43. …MongoDB (on FreeBSD): https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-3927 Redis: https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/91 . . . are a few.
    comment by dodger · 2012-01-19 · in The Trello Tech Stack
  44. …the code is unambiguously improved. Incidentally I just checked out the redis code base. Gorgeous: https://github.com/antirez/redis/tree/unstable/src
    comment by djtriptych · 2012-01-15 · in Reading Code: In praise of superficial beauty
  45. …in the github issues for a redis-cli feature able to do this work. EDIT: feature request added -> https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/288
    comment by antirez · 2012-01-07 · in Redis-dump: Backup and restore Redis with JSON
  46. …is about getting them interested in the first place. "Hello I am Salvatore Sanfilippo, I created https://github.com/antirez/redis You see how completely badass that is? The next crucial piece for we unknown developers is honesty . I think…
    comment by apsurd · 2011-12-08 · in Ask HN: No money, can't find any jobs, what am I doing wrong?
  47. Did most of what you suggested: https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/238#issuecomment-307... .
    comment by spicyj · 2011-12-08 · in Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support
  48. https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/100
    comment by X-Istence · 2011-12-08 · in Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support
  49. ▲ 167
    Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support
    story by aaronlerch · 2011-12-08 · 93 comments
  50. You should check out Redis - https://github.com/antirez/redis
    comment by herbivore · 2011-11-11 · in Ask HN: Examples of beautiful C code?