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Decision brief
RediSearch is a query and indexing engine tailored for Redis users needing advanced retrieval features.
Good fit when
- When you need secondary indexing capabilities within your Redis database.
- If your application benefits from full-text search functionality on data stored in Redis, as RediSearch provides efficient text searching.
Avoid when
- With an application that exclusively needs basic caching features without advanced querying, as RediSearch adds overhead not justified in such cases.
- In environments where the storage and querying of unstructured data is minimal to non-existent, making full-text search capabilities redundant.
- Hosting:
- library
Observed Jul 11, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts
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Full trust report- Maintenance
- Very active (0d since push)
- As of today
- Provenance
- Not a fork · Organization account
- As of today
- Security (OSV)
- No lockfile
- As of 1mo
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cargo add RediSearch crates.ioHow it fits your stack(7)
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Overview
RediSearch is a module for Redis that extends its capabilities with secondary indexing, full-text search functionality, and vector similarity search.
Capability facts
- Deploy
- Self-host
Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Aug 21, 2026
- Docker
- Dockerfile present
Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Aug 21, 2026
- Languages
- rust, python
Source: github.language+pyproject.toml · Aug 21, 2026
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README
Getting started
If you're just getting started with RediSearch, check out the official RediSearch tutorial. Also, consider viewing our RediSearch video explainer.
License
Starting with Redis 8, RediSearch is licensed under your choice of: (i) Redis Source Available License 2.0 (RSALv2); (ii) the Server Side Public License v1 (SSPLv1); or (iii) the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3). Please review the license folder for the full license terms and conditions. Prior versions remain subject to (i) and (ii).
For agents
This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.