This document provides an overview of Redis, including: - Redis is an in-memory key-value store that also supports data types like lists, sets, sorted sets, and hashes. It provides persistence and is open source. - Redis has features like master-slave replication, persistence, high performance, support for many languages, transactions, pub/sub functionality, and sharding. - It supports common data structures like lists, sets, sorted sets, and hashes that can be used to solve problems like leaderboards, caching of frequently accessed data, and counting metrics.