Currently the most popular key-value store in the world, Redis has earned its wide adoption rate by providing high speeds and low latency, packed with a flexible feature-set aimed at app developers.
Redis is an in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker distributed under the BSD license.
The popularity of a library or specific Java client doesn’t only influence its maintenance and upkeep, but also eases troubleshooting.
It can even ease the process of recruiting and training developers for your team – the more popular the library, the more likely you are to find coders well-versed in its intricacies.
It can even ease the process of recruiting and training developers for your team – the more popular the library, the more likely you are to find coders well-versed in its intricacies.
The most popular libraries are much more likely to have better upkeep and provide superior functionality and ease of use.
Top 6 Redis Libraries
Spring Data Redis
The most popular library on our list, with over 56% of users queried, comes as no surprise. Spring Data Redis is probably the easiest and fastest way to integrate Redis into your Spring application, providing the abstractions of the Spring Data platform to Redis.
Jedis
Dubbing itself “a blazingly small and sane Redis java client” Jedis was conceived with simplicity and ease of use in mind. In our data, Jedis has quite a following, with close to 29% of Codota users choosing it over other options.
Reddison
Reddison is a Redis Java client with features of In-Memory Data Grid and over 30 available objects and services. Based on high-performance async and lock-free Java Redis client and Netty framework, this library has a small following with just 8% of users among Codota’s user base.
Lettuce
Lettuce is a fully non-blocking Redis client also built with the Netty framework and it provides Reactive, Asynchronous and Synchronous Data Access. In our statistics, it was the choice of 5% of developers.
Redis embedded server
Redis embedded server for Java integration testing is not a very commonly used library according to Codota users, with under 2% of unique users.
Vert.x
The last on our list is Vert.x, a Redis client that provides an asynchronous API to interact with a Redis data-structure server. This library attracted slightly more than 0.5% of our users.