.TH REDIS-SERVER 1 "March 20, 2009" .SH NAME redis-server \- Persistent key-value database .SH SYNOPSIS .B redis-server .RI configfile .SH DESCRIPTION Redis is a key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile and other datatypes (such as lists and sets) are natively supported. .PP .SH OPTIONS .IP "configfile" Read options from specified configuration file. .SH NOTES On Debian GNU/Linux systems, \fBredis-server\fP is typically started via the \fB/etc/init.d/redis-server\fP initscript, not manually. This defaults to using \fB/etc/redis/redis.conf\fP as a configuration file. .SH AUTHOR \fBredis-server\fP was written by Salvatore Sanfilippo. .PP This manual page was written by Chris Lamb for the Debian project (but may be used by others).