In this document you will be familiar with redis and it can be called as a stimulus to work pro with REDIS.

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REDIS SERVER
An Introduction to REDIS SERVER, an advanced key value
database
By: Ali MasudianPour <masud.amp@gmail.com>

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What REDIS is
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Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value
store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys
can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.
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REDIS
– It stands for REmote DIctionary Server

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Features
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not a plain key-value store, a data structures server
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supporting different kind of values
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Free and open source
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Easy to user
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Easy to learn

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Supported Data Types
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Binary-safe strings.
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Lists of binary-safe strings.
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Sets of binary-safe strings, that are collection of unique unsorted
elements.
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Sorted sets, similar to Sets but where every element is
associated to a floating number score. The elements are taken
sorted by score.

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KEYS - VALUES
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In REDIS, Keys are binary safe
– This means that you can use any binary sequence as key
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From String like 'foo' to the content of a JPEG file
– REDIS keys accept empty
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In REDIS, Values
– Can not be bigger than 512MB
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SET
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To set a value to a key we use SET statement
– SET key value
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Example:
– SET foo bar
– In above example we told redis to set bar value to foo key
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To set string value we use double quotations
– SET keyname “The string content of value”

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GET
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To get a value from redis we use GET statement
– GET keyname
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Example
– GET foo // it will return bar
– In above example we told redis to get foo key value.

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INCR, INCRBY
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Automatic increment by REDIS
– To use automatic increment of redis we use INCR
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Example:
– Set counter 1
incr counter
// Output wil be 2
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We can also use INCRBY
– Set counter 1
– Incr counter
– // Output wil be 2
– Incrby counter 10
– //outpur will be 12

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DECR, DECRBY
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In opposite of INCR and INCRBY redis contains DESC and
DESCBY
– Just like DECR and DECRBY
– Set counter 10
decr counter
// Output wil be 9
decrby counter 5
//output will be 4

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EXPIRE and TTL
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In REDIS we can set keys to expire in a given and specific
amount of time.
– To do that we use EXPIRE command
– Example
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Set foo bar
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Expire foo 50
– To find out how many time a key have we use TTL command
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For instance after 10 second of declaring foo key if we use TTL command the
output will be something like below:
– Ttl foo
//40

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LISTS
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To create a list use LPUSH or RPUSH. If a list already exists,
LPUSH will add the given value to the beginning of the list and
RPUSH will add it to the end.
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Redis lists contain the following commands
– SORT
– RPUSH
– LPUSH
– LLEN
– LTRIM
– LRANGE
– LPOP
– RPOP
– BLPOP
– BRPOP
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LISTS
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush ages 10
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush ages 13
(integer) 2
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush ages 12
(integer) 3
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush ages 6
(integer) 4
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> LRANGE ages 0 3
1) "6"
2) "12"
3) "13"
4) "10"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> sort ages
1) "6"
2) "10"
3) "12"
4) "13"
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redis 127.0.0.1:6379> lpop ages
"6"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> rpop ages
"10"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> LRANGE ages 0 10
1) "12"
2) "13"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379>

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SETS
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Sets are similar to lists but does not support duplication
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Example:
– Add to sets
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redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SADD names "Michael"
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SADD names "JOHN"
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SMEMBERS names
1) "JOHN"
2) "Michael"

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Lists
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Now, if you try to add another set member with JOHN value it
will do nothing, because sets do not support duplication.
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Other useful commands for set
– SADD, SREM, SPOP, SMOVE, SCARD, SISMEMBER, SINTER,
SINTERSTORE, SUNION, SUNIONSTORE, SDIFF, SDIFFSTORE,
SMEMBERS, SRANDMEMBER.

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HASHES
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Using a hash, you can assign values to fields in each key.
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Common Commands in hashes are:
– HSET, HGET, HSETNX, HMSET, HMGET, HINCRBY, HEXISTS,
HDEL, HLEN, HKEYS, HVALS, HGETALL

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Example of HASHESredis 127.0.0.1:6379> hset student name "Ali"
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> hset student lastName "MasudianPour"
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> hset student number 101222
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> hget student name
"Ali"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> hget student lastName
"MasudianPour"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> HGETALL student
1) "name"
2) "Ali"
3) "lastName"
4) "MasudianPour"

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End
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This document is provided to be a little familiar with REDIS. I
hope it help you to start working with REDIS.