README に入る前に、プロジェクトサイトのトップページに書かれている特徴から、いくつか抜粋。
$ wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-1.02.tar.gz $ tar xvzf redis-1.02.tar.gz $ cd redis-1.02 $ make $ ./redis-server redis.conf
$ telnet localhost 6379 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying fe80::1... telnet: connect to address fe80::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. SET foo 3 bar +OK
GET foo $3 bar
GET blabla $-1
EXISTS nokey :0 EXISTS foo :1
Keyword(s):[kvs] [redis]
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