Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store, and is quickly picking up momentum in real-time software development, it is now a well known and trusted product and can be used in various problem scenarios as a No SQL implementation.

Redis is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

Here is a quick guide to install Redis in Ubuntu 10.04, and it should be similar for higher versions and similar deb environment.

**Prepare System for Redis **

Issue the following commands to update your system’s package repositories and ensure that all installed packages are up to date:

apt-get upgrade

You may also need to prepare a vanilla system to get some installation tools.