This document provides an overview of Redis, including its creation, features, and persistence methods. Redis is an open-source, in-memory key-value store that was created by Salvatore Sanfilippo to solve the problem of storing real-time page view data from multiple websites. It features different data types that can be stored as keys, master-slave replication for availability, and two persistence methods: RDB, which takes periodic snapshots of the dataset, and AOF, which logs all write operations to reconstruct the dataset from disk on startup.