redis/hiredis

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6679 stars · 1846 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Hiredis is a minimalistic C client library for Redis, supporting the binary-safe RESP protocol for Redis >= 1.2. It provides synchronous, asynchronous, and reply-parsing APIs, with a decoupled stream parser reusable in higher-level language bindings.

Use cases

• connect to redis from c
• send redis commands from a c application
• parse redis replies efficiently
• build redis bindings for another language
• use async redis client in c

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, low-level Redis client in C or C++
• you are building language bindings for Redis and need an efficient reply parser
• you need synchronous or asynchronous Redis access with minimal dependencies

When to avoid

• you want a high-level client with explicit methods for every Redis command
• you are working in a higher-level language with an official Redis client
• you need Redis features like clustering handled automatically out of the box

Facets

library · maturity stable

database-driver parser http-client databases developer-tools backend c cpp windows cross-platform redis resp-protocol c-client async-api reply-parsing linux macos

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