Where to find complete Redis documentation? ------------------------------------------- This README is just a fast "quick start" document. You can find more detailed documentation here: 1) http://code.google.com/p/redis 2) Check the 'doc' directory. doc/README.html is a good starting point :) Building Redis -------------- It is as simple as: % make Redis is just a single binary, but if you want to install it you can use the "make install" target that will copy the binary in /usr/local/bin for default. You can also use "make PREFIX=/some/other/directory install" if you wish to use a different destination. You can run a 32 bit Redis binary using: % make 32bit After you build Redis is a good idea to test it, using: % make test Buliding using tcmalloc ----------------------- tcmalloc is a fast and space efficient implementation (for little objects) of malloc(). Compiling Redis with it can improve performances and memeory usage. You can read more about it here: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html In order to compile Redis with tcmalloc support install tcmalloc on your system and then use: % make USE_TCMALLOC=yes Note that you can pass any other target to make, as long as you append USE_TCMALLOC=yes at the end. Running Redis ------------- To run Redis with the default configuration just type: % cd src % ./redis-server If you want to provide your redis.conf, you have to run it using an additional parameter (the path of the configuration file): % cd src % ./redis-server /path/to/redis.conf Playing with Redis ------------------ You can use redis-cli to play with Redis. Start a redis-server instance, then in another terminal try the following: % cd src % ./redis-cli redis> ping PONG redis> set foo bar OK redis> get foo "bar" redis> incr mycounter (integer) 1 redis> incr mycounter (integer) 2 redis> You can find the list of all the available commands here: http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/CommandReference Enjoy!