Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Storing and retrieving data with Redis

Redis is a key value store that functions in operational memory with blazingly fast performance.

Redis is excellent for certain tasks, as long as the data model is fairly simple.

Good examples of where Redis shines are in site analytics, server-side session cookies, and providing a list of logged-in users in real time.

In the spirit of this chapter's theme, let's reimplement our quotes database with Redis.