Redis Internals

This is a source code level documentation of Redis.

Redis STRINGS

String is the basic building block of Redis types.

Redis is a key-value store. All Redis keys are strings and its also the simplest value type.

Lists, sets, sorted sets and hashes are other more complex value types and even these are composed of strings.

Hacking Strings documents the Redis String implementation details.

Redis Virtual Memory

A technical specification full of details about the Redis Virtual Memory subsystem

Redis Event Library

Read event library to understand what an event library does and why its needed.

Redis event library documents the implementation details of the event library used by Redis