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Getting Started with Redis
The document provides a comprehensive introduction to Redis, an advanced in-memory key-value store. It covers installation, data structures, programming with various clients, administration, and advanced topics like replication and backups. The presentation concludes with acknowledgments and references for further exploration of Redis and related technologies.
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- 1. Getting Started withRedis Toronto Pivotal User Group Syed Faisal Akber VMware, Inc. 2014-08-20 S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 1 / 37
- 2. 1 Overview ofRedis 2 Building and Installing Redis 3 Starting Redis 4 Data Structures 5 Programming with Redis 6 Basics of Administration 7 Advanced Topics 8 Conclusions S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 2 / 37
- 3. Overview of Redis Theword Redis means REmote DIctionary Server It is an advanced key-value store or a data structure store Runs entirely in memory All data is kept in memory Quick data access since it is maintained in memory Data can be backed up to disk periodically Single threaded server Extensible via Lua scripts Able to replicate data between servers Clustering also available S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 3 / 37
- 4. Building and InstallingRedis Install from source Download from http://redis.io/download Download the Stable release # tar -xvzf redis-2.8.13.tar.gz # cd redis-2.8.13 # make # make test # make PREFIX=/path/to/install/directory install Packages for Mac OS X are available via Brew Pivotal Redis repository has a prebuilt package for RedHat S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 4 / 37
- 5. Starting Redis Starting theRedis server use the redis-server binary Once the server starts, you can connect to it using your programs or the command-line utility redis-cli The default port that Redis will use is 6379 and listens on all interfaces The Redis server will look for the configuration file in the current directory S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 5 / 37
- 6. Data Structures Strings Lists Sets Ordered Sets Hashes S.F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 6 / 37
- 7. Strings I For eachkey, the value is a binary safe string Simplest data structure 127.0.0.1:6379> set key "value of possible values" OK 127.0.0.1:6379> get key "value of possible values" 127.0.0.1:6379> del key (integer) 1 127.0.0.1:6379> get key (nil) Numeric operations S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 7 / 37
- 8. Strings II Set thevalue to a number and perform numeric operations 127.0.0.1:6379> set counter1 0 OK 127.0.0.1:6379> set counter2 4 OK 127.0.0.1:6379> INCRBY counter2 5 (integer) 9 127.0.0.1:6379> INCR counter1 (integer) 1 127.0.0.1:6379> decr counter2 (integer) 8 127.0.0.1:6379> mget counter1 counter2 1) "1" S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 8 / 37
- 9. Strings III 2) "8" Bitfields Set and perform bit-wise operations on strings 127.0.0.1:6379> setbit field0 5 1 (integer) 0 127.0.0.1:6379> get field0 "x04" 127.0.0.1:6379> setbit field1 4 1 (integer) 0 127.0.0.1:6379> setbit field1 5 1 (integer) 0 127.0.0.1:6379> bitop AND afields field0 field1 (integer) 1 S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 9 / 37
- 10. Strings IV 127.0.0.1:6379> bitopOR ofields field0 field1 (integer) 1 127.0.0.1:6379> get afields "x04" 127.0.0.1:6379> get ofields "x0c" S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 10 / 37
- 11. Lists I Lists keeptrack of a number of items under the same key Can be used as a stack 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush list 1 2 3 (integer) 3 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush list 4 (integer) 4 127.0.0.1:6379> llen list (integer) 4 127.0.0.1:6379> lset list 2 0 OK 127.0.0.1:6379> lpop list "4" S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 11 / 37
- 12. Lists II 127.0.0.1:6379> llenlist (integer) 3 S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 12 / 37
- 13. Sets A set isa collection of items Does not allow duplicates Mathematical set operations work here 127.0.0.1:6379> sadd set0 5 4 3 2 1 (integer) 5 127.0.0.1:6379> sadd set1 4 5 6 7 8 (integer) 5 127.0.0.1:6379> sinter set0 set1 1) "4" 2) "5" S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 13 / 37
- 14. Ordered Sets Ordered setsare similar to normal sets but retain sorting/order Set members carry a score to indicate user-defined sorting order 127.0.0.1:6379> zadd newset 6 a 2 b 4 c 4 d 1 e 6 f (integer) 6 127.0.0.1:6379> zrange newset 0 6 1) "e" 2) "b" 3) "c" 4) "d" 5) "a" 6) "f" S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 14 / 37
- 15. Hashes I Each keycan have subkeys (called fields) with its own values Consider a structure in C struct users{ char *name; int uid;} To store this in Redis use the HSET command S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 15 / 37
- 16. Hashes II 127.0.0.1:6379> HSETusers:rose name "Rose Tyler" (integer) 1 127.0.0.1:6379> HSET users:rose uid 1 (integer) 1 127.0.0.1:6379> HGETALL users:rose 1) "name" 2) "Rose Tyler" 3) "uid" 4) "1" 127.0.0.1:6379> HKEYS users:rose 1) "name" 2) "uid" S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 16 / 37
- 17. Message Passing A publish/subscribemechanism is present for broadcasting messages It is lightweight and easy to use Servers broadcast messages to channels Clients subscribe to channels of interest S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 17 / 37
- 18. Programming with Redis Thereare many “clients” or drivers available Most are very mature They include: C Common Lisp Java Perl Prolog Python Ruby S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 18 / 37
- 19. Perl One of severalPerl clients, the recommended client is Redis from CPAN my $redis = Redis->new( server=’redis.example.com:8080’, name=’my_connection_name’); $redis->get(’key’); $redis->set(’key’ => ’value’); S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 19 / 37
- 20. Python Install the driverusing pip import redis redis = redis.Redis(host=’redis.example.com’, port=8080, db=0) redis.sadd(’team1’, ’player:mike’, ’player:jane’, ’player:joe’) S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 20 / 37
- 21. Java The recommended clientis Jedis Jedis jedis = new Jedis("redis.example.com"); jedis.set("foo", "bar"); String value = jedis.get("foo"); Use it as a Maven dependency or download the jar <dependency> <groupId>redis.clients</groupId> <artifactId>jedis</artifactId> <version>2.4.2</version> <type>jar</type> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 21 / 37
- 22. Basics of AdministrationI Ensure enough memory and other resources are available for Redis Setup the configuration file (start with sample) Configure network bind addresses Configure how often to write to disk Configure Operating System Increase the file descriptor limit if there’s a large number of connections Add vm.overcommit memory = 1 to /etc/sysctl.conf to prevent failure of background saves under low memory connections Configure start-up scripts Configure backup jobs S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 22 / 37
- 23. Running Redis ina Virtual Machine Configure the Memory Reservation to be 100% of the Allocated Memory Ensure enough disk space is allocated to Virtual Machine Resource Pools should have adequate resources allocated S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 23 / 37
- 24. Advanced Topics Below aresome topics to research afterwards Replication Backups Sentinel Extensibility via Lua scripts Transactions S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 24 / 37
- 25. Replication Automatically have allof the data replicated to remote servers Use replication for redundancy S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 25 / 37
- 26. Backups Disable disk writingon primary servers to improve performance Take backups of secondary servers Use either append-only files or the snapshot mechanism Employ third-party backup software to protect save files S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 26 / 37
- 27. Sentinel Sentinel utility tomake Redis servers Highly Available Features include: Monitoring Notification Automatic Failover Configuration provider Uses Master/Slave topology Slaves are in read-only mode S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 27 / 37
- 28. Scripting with Lua Smalllightweight scripting platform Lua is similar to BASIC Allows for extensibility of Redis Offload processing to Redis for performance Analogous to RDBMS stored procedures S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 28 / 37
- 29. Transactions and Pipelining Redisallows for transaction based operations for atomicity Commands can be pipelined to improve performance Pipelining can be used within transactions S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 29 / 37
- 30. Conclusions Redis is amemory based datastore Redis is FAST It can store data in different structures Programming with Redis is easy Flexible administration options Redis has some neat features S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 30 / 37
- 31. Acknowledgements Salvatore Sanfilippo –Pivotal Pieter Noordhuis – Pivotal Dan Buchko – Pivotal Luke Shannon – Pivotal Matt Stancliff – Pivotal S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 31 / 37
- 32. References I Seguin, Karl.The Little Redis Book http://openmymind.net/redis.pdf Macedo, Tiago and Fred Oliveira. 2011. Redis Cookbook O’Reilly Media, Sebastopol, U.S.A. Redis Web-Site http://redis.io/ Redis Documentation http://redis.io/documentation Redis Download http://redis.io/download S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 32 / 37
- 33. References II Redis Documentation http://redis.io/documentation RedisCommands http://redis.io/commands redissentinel Redis Sentinel Documentation http://redis.io/topics/sentinel The Programming Language Lua http://www.lua.org/ S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 33 / 37
- 34. References III Salihefendic, Amir.2010. Redis – The Hacker’s Database (Google Tech Talk Video) http://youtu.be/1BS3UVSLX-I Virtual Machine Memory http://vmw.re/1BBkstW Redis CPAN http://search.cpan.org/~melo/Redis-1.961/lib/ Jedis Repository https://github.com/xetorthio/jedis S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 34 / 37
- 35. References IV Redmond, Ericand Jim R. Wilson. 2012. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement Pragmatic Bookshelf. RestMQ – Redis based message queue http://restmq.com/ S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 35 / 37
- 36. Questions? S. F. Akber(VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 36 / 37
- 37. Contact Information E-mail: [email protected] Twitter:@vCoreDump S. F. Akber (VMware, Inc.) Getting Started with Redis 2014-08-20 37 / 37