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Redis 4.x Cookbook

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Redis 4.x Cookbook

Overview of this book

Redis is considered the world's most popular key-value store database. Its versatility and the wide variety of use cases it enables have made it a popular choice of database for many enterprises. Based on the latest version of Redis, this book provides both step-by-step recipes and relevant the background information required to utilize its features to the fullest. It covers everything from a basic understanding of Redis data types to advanced aspects of Redis high availability, clustering, administration, and troubleshooting. This book will be your great companion to master all aspects of Redis. The book starts off by installing and configuring Redis for you to get started with ease. Moving on, all the data types and features of Redis are introduced in detail. Next, you will learn how to develop applications with Redis in Java, Python, and the Spring Boot web framework. You will also learn replication tasks, which will help you to troubleshoot replication issues. Furthermore, you will learn the steps that need to be undertaken to ensure high availability on your cluster and during production deployment. Toward the end of the book, you will learn the topmost tasks that will help you to troubleshoot your ecosystem efficiently, along with extending Redis by using different modules.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
13
Windows Environment Setup
Index

Using pipelines


In the recipe Understanding Redis protocol in Chapter 1,Getting Started with Redis we learned that Redis Clients and servers communicate via the RESP protocol. A typical communication process between the client and the server can be viewed as the following:

  1. The client sends a command to the server
  2. The server receives the command and puts it in the execution queue (as Redis is a single-threaded execution model)
  3. The command gets executed
  4. The server returns the execution result to the client

The entire time of this process is termed as round-trip time (RTT). As we can see, the time for step 2 and step 3 depends on the Redis Server, while the time for step 1 and step 4 totally depends on the network latency between the client and the server. If we need to execute multiple commands, network transmission might take a great amount of time, in comparison with the command execution time on the server, which is often very short.

The process can be expedited by using the Redis pipeline. The...