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Redis Documentation

Hello! The followings are pointers to different parts of the Redis Documentation.

The README is the best starting point to know more about the project.
This short Quick Start provides a five minutes step-by-step istructions on how to download, compile, run and test the basic workings of a Redis server.
The command reference is a description of all the Redis commands with links to command specific pages.
This is a tuturial about creating a Twitter clone using *only* Redis as database, no relational DB at all is used, it is a good start to understand the key-value database paradigm.
A Fifteen Minutes Introduction to the Redis Data Types explains how Redis data types work and the basic patterns of working with Redis.
The features page (currently in draft) is a good start to understand the strength and limitations of Redis.
The benchmark page is about the speed performances of Redis.
Our FAQ contains of course some answers to common questions about Redis.
How to donate to the project sponsoring features.

The Redis Replication HOWTO is what you need to read in order to understand how Redis master <-> slave replication works.
The Append Only File HOWTO explains how the alternative Redis durability mode works. AOF is an alternative to snapshotting on disk from time to time (the default).

The Protocol Specification is all you need in order to implement a Redis client library for a missing language. PHP, Python, Ruby and Erlang are already supported.

watch the Ezra Zygmuntowicz talk about Redis to know the most important Redis ideas in few minutes.

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