diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nosql/redis/3.0.nix b/pkgs/servers/nosql/redis/3.0.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..049639ad684f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/nosql/redis/3.0.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "3.0.0-rc3";
+  name = "redis-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/antirez/redis/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1695fa532eafc14c95f45add5d8a71d07e0e87b5c8f06c29dfa06313322d27b7";
+  };
+
+  makeFlags = "PREFIX=$(out)";
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://redis.io;
+    description = "An open source, advanced key-value store";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.berdario ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index be44fa2d5adf..be8b4db9f3ce 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8155,6 +8155,7 @@ let
   radius = callPackage ../servers/radius { };
 
   redis = callPackage ../servers/nosql/redis { };
+  redis3 = callPackage ../servers/nosql/redis/3.0.nix { };
 
   redstore = callPackage ../servers/http/redstore { };