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Ajeet Raina
Ajeet Raina
Find tutorials, examples and technical articles that will help you to develop with Redis and C.

#Getting started

In order to use Redis with C, you need a C Redis client. For your first steps with C and Redis, this article will show how to use the recommended library: hiredis.

#hiredis

#Step 1. Install the pre-requisites

Version 1.0.0 marks the first stable release of Hiredis. Follow the below steps to install the pre-requisite packages in order to compile the latest version of hiredis.
Run the below command to run Redis server

#Step 2. Install and compile hiredis

#Step 3. Copy the below C code:

#Step 4. Compile the code

#Step 5. Test the code

#More C Clients Resources

  • hiredis-cluster - C client library for Redis Cluster
  • libredis - A C based general low-level PHP extension and client library for Redis, focusing on performance, generality and efficient parallel communication with multiple Redis servers.
  • hiredispool - Provides connection pooling and auto-reconnect for hiredis. It is also minimalistic and easy to do customization.