Getting started with Redis for Windows
TL;DR - Download redis installer: Redis-64 (2.8.17) Introduction Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value cache and store that you can read more about on redis.io . There are various video introductions to it, including Channel 9's Getting Started and Azure Friday's Introduction to Redis . Obtaining Redis for Windows Microsoft OpenTech is distributing Windows ports of Redis. Whereas the team is working on adding support in the Microsoft Web Installer and have had various links to installs out there, it's not easy to find a go-to spot to download the latest stable version. If you are using Chocolatey , you can install redis into a local directory by executing choco install redis-64 Since Chocolatey is built on top of NuGet, if you'd rather get the package from within Visual Studio, run PM> Install-Package Redis-64 from the package manager console. It will download and extract the Redis executables in a Redis-64* sub d