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 free developer tier, maintained by Janea Systems

redis-windows is another unofficial port, which also exists

This release includes the redis-server.exe (memurai.exe on Memurai) application that runs a Redis instance as a service on your windows machine, as well as redis-cli.exe (memurai-cli.exe on Memurai) which you can use to interact with any Redis instance.

The RGL repository has historically been listed as an alternative Windows port for Redis, but this repository has not been maintained for some time and implements an older version of Redis than the Microsoft port.

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Update

If you have Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 you can do it per Ogglas answer

I found one more simple way to install Redis under Windows

Download the latest Redis .msi file from

https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/releases

after installation. The redis service is installed, we can operate it from Service manager

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If you want to install MSOpenTech's latest port of Redis, on a Windows server, watched over by a Windows Service, without having to build anything yourself, read on.

MSOpenTech's seems to be the only port that is actively trying to keep up with the latest and greatest Redis. They claim it is production-ready, but they haven't exactly packaged it up neatly for installation on a server, especially if you want to run their RedisWatcher service to keep an eye on it, which is recommended. (I tried building RedisWatcher myself per their instructions, but the required Wix Toolset managed to mess up my system pretty good. I won't go into it.) Fortunately they've provided all the binaries you need, just not all in one place. From the README:

So far the RedisWatcher is not carried over to 2.6. However this should not be affected by the Redis version, and the code in the 2.4 branch should work with the Redis 2.6 binaries.

So you'll need to download binaries from 2 branches in order to get all the necessary bits. Without further ado, here are the steps:

Download and extract the Redis binaries from the 2.6 branch Copy all extracted binaries to c:\redis\bin Create another folder at c:\redis\inst1 Download and extract the RedisWatcher binaries from the 2.4 branch Run InstallWatcher.msi. This should create a Windows service called Redis watcher. Open up the Windows Services console and start the Redis watcher service. (optional) RedisWatcher should have installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\RedisWatcher. There you'll find a config file called watcher.conf, which you can edit to set up additional instances, use different paths than I specified in steps 2 & 3, etc. You will not need to restart the service for changes to take effect.

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The most updated (only few minor releases behind) version of Redis can be found here. This repository provides you with 3.2.100 version (current is 3.2) whereas the most upvoted answer gives you only 2.4.6 version and the last update to the repo was 2 years ago.

The installation is straightforward: just copy everything from the archive to any folder and run redis-server.exe to run the server and redis-cli.exe to connect to this server through the shell.

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To install Redis for Windows

You can choose either from these sources

https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/releases or https://github.com/rgl/redis/downloads

Personally I preferred the first option

Download Redis-x64-2.8.2104.zip

Extract the zip to prepared directory

run redis-server.exe or redis-server.exe --maxheap 2gb

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then run redis-cli.exe

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You can start using Redis now, please refer for commands

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Go to the releases and you can get a ZIP file containing the relevant files as well as a Word document called RedisService.docx with the following instructions:

Installing the Service --service-install This must be the first argument on the redis-server command line. Arguments after this are passed in the order they occur to Redis when the service is launched. The service will be configured as Autostart and will be launched as "NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService". Upon successful installation a success message will be displayed and Redis will exit. This command does not start the service. For instance: redis-server --service-install redis.windows.conf --loglevel verbose

And then later, in the same document, another example:

The following would install and start three separate instances of Redis as a service: redis-server --service-install -–service-name redisService1 –port 10001 redis-server --service-start --service-name redisService1 redis-server --service-install --service-name redisService2 –port 10002 redis-server --service-start --service-name redisService2 redis-server --service-install --service-name redisService3 –port 10003 redis-server --service-start --service-name redisService3

From what I can gather, this appears to be the new way forward rather than messing with a separate Windows service to monitor and restart the CLI.

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If you have Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 you can do it like this:

Set up WSL:

To enable Windows Subsystem for Linux, follow the instructions on Microsoft Docs. The short version is: In Windows 10, Microsoft replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell as the default shell. Open PowerShell as Administrator and run this command to enable Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux Reboot Windows after making the change—note that you only need to do this one time. Download and install one of the supported Linux distros from the Microsoft Store. Ubuntu works fine. Note that Ubuntu 20.04 LTS may give you some trouble because of a known issue with the realtime clock (as of August 2020). Choosing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS instead avoids that issue.

Install and Test Redis:

Launch the installed distro from your Windows Store and then install redis-server. The following example works with Ubuntu (you’ll need to wait for initialization and create a login upon first use): > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get upgrade > sudo apt-get install redis-server > redis-cli -v Restart the Redis server to make sure it is running: > sudo service redis-server restart Execute a simple Redis command to verify your Redis server is running and available: $ redis-cli 127.0.0.1:6379> set user:1 "Oscar" 127.0.0.1:6379> get user:1 "Oscar" To stop your Redis server: > sudo service redis-server stop

Source:

https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-on-windows-10/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

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Download redis from Download Redis for windows

Then install it

open cmd with admin rights

run command net start redis

Thats it.

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You can use Memurai for Windows, a Redis-compatible cache and datastore for Windows, currently compatible with Redis 5. Memurai aims to fulfill the need for a supported Redis-compatible datastore on the Windows platform. At its core, it’s based on Redis source code, ported to run natively on Windows, and it’s designed to provide the level of reliability and performance required for production environments. Memurai is free for development and testing. You can learn more and download Memurai at https://www.memurai.com.

Alexis Campailla CEO, Memurai

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MS Open Tech recently made a version of Redis available for download on Github. They say that it isn't production ready yet, but keep an eye on it.

Github repo

Download releases as MSIs

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There are two ways. You can use MSI installation file or do it manually:

First download the msi or the zip file:

https://github.com/MicrosoftArchive/redis/releases

Watch video tutorial (video covers example of both installations)

See this installation video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncFhlv-gBXQ

Instruction - for those who can not YT at work:

You can download a moderately out-of-date precompiled version of Redis for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows thanks to Dusan Majkic from his GitHub page: https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/downloads. Go ahead and do that now.

After you download Redis, you’ll need to extract the executables from the zip file. As long as you’re using a version of Windows more recent than Windows XP, you should be able to extract Redis without any additional software. Do that now.

After you’ve extracted either the 32- or 64-bit version of Redis to a location of your choice (depending on your platform and preferences; remember that 64-bit Windows can run 32- or 64-bit Redis, but 32-bit Windows can only run 32-bit Redis), you can start Redis by double-clicking on the redis-server executable. After Redis has started, you should see a window similar to figure A.1.

src: https://redis.com/ebook/appendix-a/a-3-installing-on-windows/a-3-2-installing-redis-on-window/

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Since MSOpenTech's port of Redis is no longer maintained - anyone interested in native port of Redis for Windows can now get the version 4.0.14 and 5.0.10 from here: https://github.com/tporadowski/redis/releases. This fork is a merge of latest 3.2.100 version from MSOpenTech and 4.0.14/5.0.10 from antirez/redis with a couple of bugfixes.

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I don't run redis on windows. There's too much hassle involved in keeping up with the ports, and they lag behind redis-stable by a version or two all the time.

Instead I run redis on a Vagrant virtual machine that runs redis for me. I've bundled up the whole thing into a simple github repo so everyone can get in on the fun without too much hassle. The whole thing is an automated build so there's no mess. I blogged about the details here.

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To install Redis on Windows system follow the below steps:

Visit one of the below link:

https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/releases (recommended) https://github.com/rgl/redis/downloads

Download MSI file. Follow the installation Wizard and install the program on your system. (do not change the installation path that is "C:\Program Files\Redis") Search for "Edit system environment variable" on your start menu Click on "Environment Variable" button Select "Path" and click on "Edit" Now click on "New" Paste C:\Program Files\Redis (or the path in case you have changed while installing) Click on "Okay", "Okay" and "Okay"

Now open your Terminal (command prompt) and run redis-cli

Well I am getting some error to open redis-server (It was working fine till now but not sure what's wrong so figuring out and will update this answer)

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I think these is the two most simple ways to run Redis on Windows

1 - Native (and updated) port for Windows

As described here on Option 3) Running Microsoft's native port of Redis:

Download the redis-latest.zip native 64bit Windows port of redis wget https://github.com/ServiceStack/redis-windows/raw/master/downloads/redis-latest.zip Extract redis64-latest.zip in any folder, e.g. in c:\redis Run the redis-server.exe using the local configuration cd c:\redis redis-server.exe redis.conf Run redis-cli.exe to connect to your redis instance cd c:\redis redis-cli.exe

2 - With Vagrant

You can use Redis on Windows with Vagrant, as described here:

Install Vagrant on Windows Download the vagrant-redis.zip vagrant configuration wget https://raw.github.com/ServiceStack/redis-windows/master/downloads/vagrant-redis.zip Extract vagrant-redis.zip in any folder, e.g. in c:\vagrant-redis Launch the Virtual Box VM with vagrant up: cd c:\vagrant-redis vagrant up This will launch a new Ubuntu VM instance inside Virtual Box that will automatically install and start the latest stable version of redis.

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If you're happy with a bit of Powershell, you can also get very up-to-date Windows binaries using Powershell and chocolatey.

First, add chocolatey to Powershell following the instructions here (one simple command line as admin): https://chocolatey.org/

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin

Then, use Powershell to get the redis package from chocolatey: http://chocolatey.org/packages/redis-64

choco install redis-64

Redis will be installed in something like C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\redis-64.2.8.9

Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS C:\windows\system32> choco install redis-64 Chocolatey (v0.9.8.27) is installing 'redis-64' and dependencies. By installing you accept the license for 'redis-64' an d each dependency you are installing. redis-64 v2.8.9 Added C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\redis-benchmark.exe shim pointed to '..\lib\redis-64.2.8.9\redis-benchmark.exe'. Added C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\redis-check-aof.exe shim pointed to '..\lib\redis-64.2.8.9\redis-check-aof.exe'. Added C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\redis-check-dump.exe shim pointed to '..\lib\redis-64.2.8.9\redis-check-dump.exe'. Added C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\redis-cli.exe shim pointed to '..\lib\redis-64.2.8.9\redis-cli.exe'. Added C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\redis-server.exe shim pointed to '..\lib\redis-64.2.8.9\redis-server.exe'. Finished installing 'redis-64' and dependencies - if errors not shown in console, none detected. Check log for errors if unsure

Then run the server with

redis-server

Or the CLI with

redis-cli

Follow the instructions in C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\redis-64.2.8.9\RedisService.docx to install the redis service

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The Redis download page now has links to some unofficial Windows ports. The dmajkic one seems to be the most popular/complete.

More detailed answer: How to run Redis as a service under Windows

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One of the most easy way to run Redis on windows host is to use Docker Redis container. Just fire up Hyper-V, Download Docker and run Redis

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I am using Memurai which is Redis-compatible cache and datastore for Windows. It is also recommended by Microsoft open tech as it written on their former project here.

This project is no longer being actively maintained. If you are looking for a Windows version of Redis, you may want to check out Memurai. Please note that Microsoft is not officially endorsing this product in any way.

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you can install Redis by following this article: https://github.com/ServiceStack/redis-windows but for going straight, you can download it by this link: https://github.com/ServiceStack/redis-windows/raw/master/downloads/redis-latest.zip after downloading, go to the directory which you like to put your files,then extract the zip file, then open a command prompt and go to the directory where you extracted your file, then type "redis-server" and hit enter(for opening redis-cli open command and route to redis directory, but instead of "redis-server" execute "redis-cli").

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I've provided installation instructions and downloads for the 2 most popular ways of running Redis on windows at: https://github.com/mythz/redis-windows that shows how to:

Use Vagrant to run the latest stable version of Redis inside a VirtualBox VM. Download and run Microsoft's Native Windows port of Redis

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Using Windows 10?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

/etc/apt/sources.list

(Debian 10 Buster/Bullseye)
Installs latest stable Redis (5.0.6 at time of posting)

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main

apt install redis-server

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You can try out baboonstack, which includes redis and also a node.js and mongoDB version manager. And it's cross platform.

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The redis version on windows was published by microsoft open tech team But recently this project has been archived to https://github.com/MicrosoftArchive/redis read-only and will not update. Has stopped development

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Here are my steps to install Redis 4.0.8 on Windows 10 Pro (1709) via Windows Subsystem for Linux:

in home/user/
   01 wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-4.0.8.tar.gz
   02 tar xzf redis-4.0.8.tar.gz
   03 cd redis-4.0.8/
   04 sudo apt-get install make
   05 sudo apt-get update
   06 sudo apt-get install gcc
   07 cd deps
   08 make hiredis jemalloc linenoise lua geohash-int
   09 cd ..
   10 make

You can skip several steps if you have an up-to-date environment.

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The MSOpenTech-Redis project is no longer being actively maintained. If you are looking for a Windows version of Redis, you may want to check out Memurai. Please note that Microsoft is not officially endorsing this product in any way. More details in https://github.com/microsoftarchive/redis

To install & setup Redis Server on Windows 10 https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-on-windows-10

To install & setup Redis Server on macOS & Linux https://redis.io/download

Also, you may install & setup Redis Server on Linux via the package manager

For quick Redis Server Installation & Setup Guide for macOS https://github.com/rahamath18/Redis-on-MacOS

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You can go through the below steps and get setup redis in windows.

Download the Redis zip file. Click here! Extract the zip file to the prepared directory. Run redis-server.exe, you can either directly run redis-server.exe by clicking or run via command prompt.

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Run redis-cli.exe, after successfully running the redis-server. You can access it and test commands by running redis-cli.exe Test PING command is used to test if a connection is still alive.

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Reading about some users running Redis in a VM, it brought to my mind the recommendations from Redis team :

Redis runs slower on a VM. Virtualization toll is quite high because for many common operations. (...) Prefer to run Redis on a physical box, especially if you favor deterministic latencies. On a state-of-the-art hypervisor (VMWare), result of redis-benchmark on a VM through the physical network is almost divided by 2 compared to the physical machine, with some significant CPU time spent in system and interruptions.

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The Redis project does not officially support Windows. However, the Microsoft Open Tech group develops and maintains this Windows port targeting Win64.

http://redis.io/download

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