redis/redis-py

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

13618 stars · 2725 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

redis-py is the official Python client library for the Redis key-value store, supporting both synchronous and asynchronous usage. It provides a full-featured interface to Redis commands including Redis Cluster, with optional hiredis-based parsing for faster performance.

Use cases

• connect to redis from python
• use redis as a cache in a python app
• store and retrieve keys in redis
• work with redis cluster from python
• use redis for rate limiting or session storage
• publish and subscribe to redis channels
• use redis asynchronously with asyncio

When to choose

• you need the official, well-maintained Python client for Redis
• you need support for Redis Cluster, async, or the latest Redis commands
• you want a mature library with broad community adoption

When to avoid

• you need a high-level object mapper (consider redis-om-python)
• you are not using Python
• you use a different datastore than Redis

Facets

library · maturity stable

database-driver caching http-client databases developer-tools backend python cross-platform redis key-value-store redis-cluster async hiredis

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