Redis 4.x Cookbook

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.

Title Page

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Foreword

Contributors

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Redis

Introduction

Downloading and installing Redis

Starting and shutting down Redis

Connecting to Redis with redis-cli

Getting server information

Understanding the Redis Event Model

Understanding the Redis protocol

Data Types

Introduction

Using the string data type

Using the list data type

Using the hash data type

Using the set data type

Using the sorted set data type

Using the HyperLogLog data type

Using the Geo data type

Managing keys

Data Features

Introduction

Using bitmaps

Setting expiration on keys

Using SORT

Using pipelines

Understanding Redis transactions

Using PubSub

Using Lua

Debugging Lua

Developing with Redis

Introduction

When to use Redis in your application

Using the correct data types

Using the correct Redis APIs

Connecting to Redis with Java

Connecting to Redis with Python

Connecting to Redis with Spring Data Redis

Writing a MapReduce job for Redis

Writing a Spark job for Redis

Replication

Introduction

Setting up Redis replication

Optimizing replication

Troubleshooting replication

Persistence

Combining RDB and AOF

Setting Up High Availability and Cluster

Introduction

Setting up Sentinel

Testing Sentinel

Administrating Sentinel

Setting up Redis Cluster

Testing Redis Cluster

Administrating Redis Cluster

Deploying to a Production Environment

Introduction

Deploying Redis on Linux

Securing Redis

Setting client connection options

Configuring memory policy

Benchmarking

Logging

Administrating Redis

Introduction

Managing Redis Server configurations

Operating Redis using bin/redis-cli

Troubleshooting Redis

Introduction

Health checking in Redis

Identifying slow queries using the SLOWLOG

Troubleshooting latency issues

Troubleshooting memory issues

Troubleshooting crash issues

Extending Redis with Redis Modules

Introduction

Loading a Redis module

Writing a Redis module

The Redis Ecosystem

Introduction

The Redisson client

Twemproxy

Codis – a proxy-based high-performance Redis Cluster solution

The CacheCloud Redis management system

Pika – a Redis-compatible NoSQL database

Windows Environment Setup

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Exploring RDB

We have learned that, via persistence, Redis dumps its in-memory data to a file called dump.rdb by default. For beginners, it might be enough to understand the points mentioned in the previous recipe. For geeks who are eager to know more about how the RDB file works as a binary representation of Redis in-memory data, it's of great benefit to explore the RDB format. In this recipe, we will dig into the format of the RDB file to see what we can do with knowledge of the RDB format.

Getting ready…

You need to finish the installation of the Redis Server, as we described in the Downloading and installing Redis recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Redis.

To inspect a binary file format, a binary editor is a must. In Ubuntu Linux, bvi is the most common binary editor. Install it as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install bvi

For macOS, you can download HexFriend at: https://github.com/ridiculousfish/HexFiend/releases

For the purpose of demonstration, flushing all the data with the FLUSHALL...

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