Company
Date Published
Author
Guy Korland
Word count
763
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Redis community has developed over 218 clients for the open-source database, covering a wide range of programming languages, including some lesser-known ones like Racket and Rebol. Writing a Redis client is not as simple as it seems, as it requires understanding the Redis Protocol and implementing all 264 commands, while also supporting features like High-Availability, Sharding, Transactions, and Extensibility. To address this challenge, the Redis team has been working to improve the development experience for clients, including providing a forum for maintainers to share their experiences and feedback, contributing code to popular clients, and welcoming new members to the organization. Recently, three new clients - Jedis, node-redis, and redis-py - have joined the community with a modernized version of each, offering improved features and support for Redis Modules like RediSearch and RedisJSON. The team plans to continue working on new features and updates in the near future.