Introduction

Redis is an open-source data store that is used as a database, cache / messaging broker. It supports quite a lot of data structures like string, hashes, lists, queries, and much more. It’s a blazing fast key-value based database that is written in C. It’s a NoSQL Database as well, which is awesome. For these purposes, it is being used at tech-giants like Stackoverflow, Flickr, Github, and so on.

Setting up Redis on Windows 10

Download the ZIP Folder from this Github Repo. You could also use the MSI Executable.

Getting to know Redis Better

By default, Redis runs on the local 6379 port. To change this, open up Powershell and run the following command. ./redis-server --port {your_port}

Integrating Redis Caching in ASP.NET Core

Install a package that helps you communicate with the redis server.

Install-Package Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.StackExchangeRedis