{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "id": "operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules",
  "title": "Install and upgrade modules",
  "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/",
  "summary": "",
  "aliases": [
    "/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/install/"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "docs",
    "operate",
    "rs"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-10-06T08:53:14-07:00",
  "children": [
    {
      "id": "operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/add-module-to-cluster",
      "summary": "",
      "title": "Install a module on a cluster",
      "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/add-module-to-cluster/"
    },
    {
      "id": "operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/add-module-to-database",
      "summary": "",
      "title": "Enable a module for a database",
      "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/add-module-to-database/"
    },
    {
      "id": "operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/upgrade-module",
      "summary": "",
      "title": "Upgrade modules",
      "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/upgrade-module/"
    }
  ],
  "page_type": "content",
  "content_hash": "c52249931da7475983914c57b772f1390c39a05a96ab4cba87a22f1466581214",
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "overview",
      "title": "Overview",
      "role": "overview",
      "text": "Several modules that provide additional Redis capabilities, such as Redis Search, JSON, time series, and probabilistic data structures, come packaged with [Redis Software](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs). As of version 8.0, Redis Software includes multiple feature sets, compatible with different Redis database versions.\n\nHowever, if you want to use additional modules or upgrade a module to a more recent version, you need to:\n\n1. [Install a module package](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/add-module-to-cluster) on the cluster.\n1. [Enable a module](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/add-module-to-database) for a new database or [upgrade a module](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/installing-upgrading/modules/upgrade-module) in an existing database."
    },
    {
      "id": "automatically-enabled-capabilities-in-redis-8",
      "title": "Automatically enabled capabilities in Redis 8",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "Databases created with or upgraded to Redis version 8 or later automatically enable the capabilities (modules) bundled with Redis Software as follows:\n\n| Database type | Automatically enabled capabilities |\n|---------------|------------------------------------|\n| RAM-only | [Redis Search](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/search)<br />[JSON](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/json)<br />[Time series](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/timeseries)<br />[Probabilistic](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/bloom)  |\n| Flash-enabled ([Redis Flex](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/databases/flash)) | [JSON](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/json)<br />[Probabilistic](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/bloom) |\n| [Active-Active](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/rs/databases/active-active)<sup>[1](#enabled-modules-table-note-1)</sup> | [Redis Search](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/search/search-active-active)<br />[JSON](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/json) |\n\n1. <a name=\"enabled-modules-table-note-1\"></a>Upgrading existing Active-Active databases to Redis version 8 does not automatically enable these capabilities. Only new Active-Active databases created with Redis version 8 enable these capabilities by default."
    }
  ],
  "examples": []
}