You're not alone, I wrote wire-compatible version of Redis in perl: https://github.com/skx/predis https://github.com/skx/predis Of course I simplified things

You're not alone, I wrote wire-compatible version of Redis in perl: https://github.com/skx/predis https://github.com/skx/predis Of course I simplified things by only implementing keys and sets, rather than all the operations such as hashes, etc. But allowing pluggable storage back-ends made it useful for my use-case(s).