Redis hits 10 billion Docker pulls—but we’re just getting started

Seven years ago, in September of 2018, we announced that Redis passed 1 billion pulls on Docker Hub. At the time, we were one of the first technologies to hit that number. A little more than five years later in 2023, we hit 5 billion Docker pulls. Over the last year, our Docker pulls have grown by 20% quarter over quarter, and we’ve been averaging more than 2.25 million pulls per day over the last two months.

This week—less than three years after our 5 billion mark—we hit 10 billion.

Ten billion pulls is a huge milestone for us. Redis is one of only a handful of technologies to ever reach this number of pulls. It not only speaks to how foundational a technology Redis is, but also to its versatility. Over the years, Redis has become known as a “Swiss Army Knife” for developers because of the variety of use cases it supports, from streaming to NoSQL database workloads. We started as, and will always be, a great way to cache data—but we hit this milestone because we’re much more than that.

The Redis community has innovated and grown the platform over the last decade-plus, and we’ve always looked to our users to steer us in the right direction as we do. Developers turn to Redis when they need fast data for any application, and building performant agentic platforms is no exception. In fact, in the latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 43% of developers said they use Redis to store data for AI applications. We hear this loud and clear, and we’re continuing to work on features that make Redis an even better building block for supplying agentic apps with fast data.

That’s the magic of our community in action. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. We’re excited to see what you build over the next 10 billion pulls.

Redis by the billions

• 2009: Redis is created by Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka antirez); Google Docs and Kickstarter both launched, and Bitcoin began being used.
• 2018: Redis passes 1 billion Docker pulls; 51.2 percent of humanity or 3.9 billion people are online, marking the first time half the world has internet access.
• 2020: Redis passes 2 billion Docker pulls. The pandemic keeps us all at home. Zoom took off, and working from home became the norm as offices were abandoned.
• 2021: Redis passes 4 billion Docker pulls. Facebook rebrands as Meta and goes all in on VR, Waymo launches autonomous vehicle taxis in San Francisco.
• 2023: Redis passes 6 billion Docker pulls. GenAI and chatbots explode after the introduction of Chat-GPT in late 2022. Google releases Gemini, Anthropic releases Claude.
• 2024: Redis passes 8 billion Docker pulls. The AI model race is on with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta all racing to build the smartest model. Vector databases become the hot new piece of infrastructure as the AI tooling ecosystem starts to take shape (we know someone you should talk to about that).
• 2025: Redis passes 10 billion docker pulls. We can’t wait to be a part of what’s next.