Streams in Redis

From the Redis cheat sheet · Pub/Sub & Streams · verified Jul 2026

Streams

Persistent message streams with consumer groups

bash
# Add to stream
XADD mystream * field1 value1 field2 value2

# Read from stream
XREAD COUNT 2 STREAMS mystream 0

# Consumer groups
XGROUP CREATE mystream mygroup 0
XREADGROUP GROUP mygroup consumer1 STREAMS mystream >
💾 Persistent message history
👥 Consumer groups for distributed processing
✅ Message acknowledgment support
📊 Better than pub/sub for reliable messaging

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