What is Redis Cache and how to use it in Spring Boot using Spring-Data-Redis?

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Hello everyone. In this article let us see how to use a Redis cache with a Spring Boot application. If you want to know in-depth about Caching, please go through my below article

Caching things every Programmer must know

Caching in Spring Boot

Spring Boot supports the following Cache Providers and Redis is the most widely used. We will be focussing on Redis in this article

• Generic
• JCache (JSR-107) (EhCache 3, Hazelcast, Infinispan, and others)
• EhCache 2.x
• Hazelcast
• Infinispan
• Couchbase
• Redis
• Caffeine
• Simple

What is Redis?

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Redis is an In-Memory distributed cache that is super fast, highly scalable, and…