August 2016 Summaries

In the past 12 months, Redis has celebrated significant market leadership milestones, including a 350% year-over-year revenue growth for its Redis Enterprise Cluster and an expansion to over 55,000 accounts for its Redis Cloud offering. The company's market leadership position was further strengthened by its debut as a Leader in the Forrester Wave report on Big Data NoSQL, driven by high evaluation marks across several key categories. This recognition is backed by Gartner's 2015 Operational Database Management Systems Magic Quadrant report, positioning Redis as a leading NoSQL vendor. Redis' continuous innovation and execution excellence are catching the attention of enterprise architecture professionals, analysts, and thought leaders, with its solutions built on a rock-solid foundation of high performance, scalability, and expertise. With an impressive streak of big wins, Redis is poised for further success in the year ahead.

Redis has introduced a module system that allows developers to write C libraries and add new capabilities and data structures to Redis. This feature is considered one of the most exciting new features in Redis and will significantly shape its dynamics and usage in the future. Modules are basically C shared libraries (.so files) that Redis can load at runtime or on startup, containing command handlers with a specific signature. The API for writing modules is well-documented but extensive; this guide serves as a basic overview of module writing.