taoensso/carmine

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1178 stars · 132 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Carmine is a mature, high-performance Redis client for Clojure with an idiomatic API, connection pooling, and automatic de/serialization of Clojure data types via Nippy. It also provides a fast message queue API and a distributed lock API built on Redis.

Use cases

• connect to redis from clojure
• build a message queue on redis
• cache data in a clojure app using redis
• implement distributed locks across services
• serialize clojure data structures into redis
• use redis as a job queue for background workers

When to choose

• you need a production-ready Redis client in Clojure with idiomatic data handling
• you want a simple Redis-backed message queue or distributed locks without extra infrastructure
• you run single-node, Redis Enterprise, or Redis Cloud deployments

When to avoid

• you need Redis Sentinel or Redis Cluster support, which is not yet supported
• your project is not on the JVM/Clojure
• you need a language-agnostic or multi-language Redis client

Facets

library · maturity active

database-driver message-queue serialization caching databases backend developer-tools jvm jvm-scripting redis clojure connection-pooling distributed-locks nippy

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