Connecting and Using Redis in Spring Boot with Jedis

In the modern era of application development, caching has become an essential technique to enhance performance and user experience. Redis, as an in-memory data structure store, has gained popularity for its speed and efficiency in handling caches, sessions, and messaging. Integrating Redis into a Spring Boot application can significantly boost its performance. This article will guide you through setting up and using Redis in a Spring Boot application with the Jedis client.

Setting Up the Stage

Before diving into the code, make sure you have Redis installed and running on your machine or accessible via a network. For local development, running a Redis instance on your local machine would suffice. You can download Redis from redis.io.

Including Dependencies

To start, you’ll need to add the necessary dependencies to your Spring Boot project. Open your pom.xml and include the Spring Boot starter for Redis and the Jedis client:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-redis</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>redis.clients</groupId>
    <artifactId>jedis</artifactId>
    <version>3.6.0</version>
</dependency>