Redis leaderboard

Build ranked leaderboards with Redis sorted sets and user metadata

This guide family shows how to build a leaderboard with Redis sorted sets and per-user metadata.

Overview

Leaderboards are a natural fit for Redis because sorted sets keep members ordered by score while still allowing fast updates and range queries.

This pattern works well when you need to:

• Track scores for players, users, teams, or other ranked entities
• Fetch the top n entries quickly
• Show entries around a specific rank position
• Keep only the highest-ranked entries, such as the top 100
• Store richer user details separately from the ranking score

Available implementations

• redis-py - Build a Python leaderboard with sorted sets, user metadata hashes, and a local interactive demo
• node-redis - Build a JavaScript leaderboard with sorted sets, user metadata hashes, and a local interactive demo
• go-redis - Build a Go leaderboard with sorted sets, user metadata hashes, and a local interactive demo
• Jedis - Build a Java leaderboard with sorted sets, user metadata hashes, and a local interactive demo
• Lettuce - Build async and reactive Java leaderboards with sorted sets, user metadata hashes, and a local interactive demo
• .NET - Build a C# leaderboard with sorted sets, user metadata hashes, and a local interactive demo
• Rust - Build sync and async Rust leaderboards with sorted sets, user metadata hashes, and a local interactive demo
• PHP - Build a PHP leaderboard with sorted sets, user metadata hashes, and a local interactive demo
• Ruby - Build a Ruby leaderboard with sorted sets, user metadata hashes, and a local interactive demo

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