redis Getting started with redis

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Install Redis by using Docker

It is simple to start using Redis using docker:

docker pull redis
docker run -p 6379:6379 --rm --name redis redis
 

Now you have running instance on port 6397

Attention: All data will be deleted, when Redis will be stopped.

To connect the redis-cli, start another docker:

docker run -it --link redis:redis --rm redis redis-cli -h redis -p 6379
 

Now you can play around with your redis docker.

Overview

Redis is an in-memory remote database that offers high performance, replication, and a unique data model to produce a platform for solving problems. Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure , used as database, cache and message broker. It is categorized as a NoSQL key-value store. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes with radius queries. Supporting five different types of data structures,

1. STRING (Operate on the whole string, parts, integers and floats)
2. LIST (Push or pop items from both ends)
3. SET (Add, fetch, remove, check, intersect, union, difference etc)
4. HASH (store, fatch, remove in hash)
5. ZSET (same as set but in ordered way)
6. GEO (Add, update, delete latitude and longitude, get within given redius)

Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions and different levels of on-disk persistence(sync/async).

Prior to version 3, Redis works in master-slave mode and required Redis-Sentinel to provide high-availability.Only master accepts writes and syncs data to its slaves by forking.

From version 3, Redis works & recommends multi-master mode where failover, sharding/paritioning, resharding features are in-built. Redis-Sentinel is not required from version-3. In order for the redis cluster to operate a minimum of 3 master nodes/processes are required.

Additional features are replication, persistence, and client-side sharding. Redis accommodates a wide variety of problems that can be naturally mapped into what Redis offers, allowing you to solve your problems without having to perform the conceptual work required by other databases.

Redis "Hello World"

First you need to install and start your Redis server, check the link below that can help you to install redis on you server or local machine.

Installation and Setup

Now open your command prompt and run command redis-cli :

To save first set >SET 'keyname' then 'value'

127.0.0.1:6379> SET hkey "Hello World!"
 

Press Enter you should see

OK
 

Then enter:

GET hkey
 

you should see:

"Hello World!"
 

Screen output example:

Redis command line interface

redis-cli is the Redis command line interface program that allows to send commands to Redis and read the replies sent by the server, directly from the terminal. Basic command line usage is below:

Access to redis:

$ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379>
 

Access to redis with authentication:

$ redis-cli -a myPassword
127.0.0.1:6379>
 

Select database and show database size (default database number is 0):

127.0.0.1:6379> dbsize
(integer) 2
127.0.0.1:6379> select 1
OK
127.0.0.1:6379[1]> dbsize
(integer) 20
 

Get information and statistics about the server:

127.0.0.1:6379> info
redis_version:2.4.10
redis_git_sha1:00000000
redis_git_dirty:0
arch_bits:64
multiplexing_api:epoll
gcc_version:4.4.6
process_id:947
uptime_in_seconds:873394
uptime_in_days:10
lru_clock:118108
used_cpu_sys:19.55
used_cpu_user:397.46
used_cpu_sys_children:0.00
used_cpu_user_children:0.00
connected_clients:1
connected_slaves:0
client_longest_output_list:0
client_biggest_input_buf:0
blocked_clients:0
used_memory:14295792
used_memory_human:13.63M
used_memory_rss:19853312
used_memory_peak:14295760
used_memory_peak_human:13.63M
mem_fragmentation_ratio:1.39
mem_allocator:jemalloc-2.2.5
loading:0
aof_enabled:0
changes_since_last_save:0
bgsave_in_progress:0
last_save_time:1468314087
bgrewriteaof_in_progress:0
total_connections_received:2
total_commands_processed:2
expired_keys:0
evicted_keys:0
keyspace_hits:0
keyspace_misses:0
pubsub_channels:0
pubsub_patterns:0
latest_fork_usec:0
vm_enabled:0
role:master
db0:keys=2,expires=0
db1:keys=20,expires=0
 

Exiting from the redis-cli:

127.0.0.1:6379> exit
 

Redis installtion on Windows, with Node.js example

Redis has a Windows port provided by 'Microsoft Open Technologies'. You can use the msi installer found on: https://github.com/MSOpenTech/redis/releases

After installation completes you can see 'Redis' is a Windows service (and it's status should be "Started")

To write an 'Hello world' example that uses Redis in Node.js (in windows as well) you can use the following npm module : https://www.npmjs.com/package/redis

code sample:

var redis = require('redis'),
    client = redis.createClient();

client.set('mykey', 'Hello World');
client.get('mykey', function(err,res){
    console.log(res);
});