Redis is single-threaded, then how does it do concurrent I/O?

Well it depends on how you define concurrency. In server-side software, concurrency and parallelism are often considered as different concepts. In a server, supporting concurrent I/Os means the server is able to serve several clients by executing several flows corresponding to those clients with only one computation unit. In this context, parallelism would mean the … Read more

How do I run Redis on Windows?

Historically, Microsoft had a Windows port of redis, which was released as Redis-64, which offers a full distribution of redis for Windows. The Microsoft port is now deprecated, but some alternatives have sprung up to fill that void: Memurai is the alternative officially recommended on the Redis-64 deprecation page; it is a commercial offering with … Read more