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Redis Stack

Redis Stack

Redis with search, JSON, graph, and time series

Redis Stack bundles Redis with modules for JSON documents, full-text search, graph, time series, and probabilistic data structures in one package.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

JSON documents, full-text search, and vector similarity in Redis. One less database to manage.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

Redis doing more than caching makes sense. The module consolidation reduces infrastructure complexity.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

Redis evolving from cache to multi-model database positions it for more use cases without added infrastructure.

Community Sentiment

Overall1,850 mentions
63% positive25% neutral12% negative
Hacker News388 mentions
61%27%12%

Bundling all the modules makes sense but the licensing situation with Redis Ltd is still messy

Reddit571 mentions
64%24%12%

Full-text search in Redis is surprisingly capable, replaced Elasticsearch for smaller datasets

Twitter/X743 mentions
63%25%12%

Redis Stack's vector search is solid for RAG use cases when you already have Redis

Product Hunt148 mentions
69%20%11%

Great if you're already in the Redis ecosystem, but consider Valkey for open source