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Carmine

Redis client + message queue for Clojure

Redis and Clojure are individually awesome, and even better together.

Carmine is a mature Redis client for Clojure that offers an idiomatic Clojure API with plenty of speed, power, and ease-of-use.

Why Carmine?

• High-performance pure-Clojure library
• Fully documented API with support for the latest Redis commands and features
• Easy-to-use, production-ready connection pooling
• Auto de/serialization of Clojure data types via Nippy
• Fast, simple message queue API
• Fast, simple distributed lock API

Compatibility

Redis is available in a few different flavours depending on your needs:

	Features	Support?
Single node	Simplest setup	Yes
Redis Sentinel	High availability	No (possibly later)
Redis Cluster	High availability, sharding	No (possibly later)
Redis Enterprise	High availability, sharding	Yes
Redis Cloud	High availability, sharding, hosted	Yes

Documentation

• Wiki (getting started, usage, etc.)
• API reference via cljdoc
• Support: Slack or GitHub issues

Funding

You can help support continued work on this project and others, thank you!! 🙏

License

Copyright © 2014-2025 Peter Taoussanis.
Licensed under EPL 1.0 (same as Clojure).