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Redis is a project like [[Memcached]] in that it's an in-memory key/value store. See https://redis.io/topics/introduction for an introduction.

[[mw:Redis]] gives details about using it with MediaWiki. The use cases for Redis are a bit different from Memcached (because they are similar, not identical). In particular, Session storage and Job queue management are mentioned as use cases. The consensus on Stack Overflow is that Redis is better <ref>Great discussion comparing Redis to Memcached: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10558465/memcached-vs-redis</ref>.

Redis can be [https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/operations/?q=redis%5CW&i=nope&files=&repos= found in Wikimedia Operations]
and [https://codesearch.wmflabs.org/core/?q=redis%5CW&i=nope&files=&repos= throughout MW Core]

Docs are at https://redis.io/documentation

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