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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

Writing a Redis module


Redis provides extensive C APIs for users to write a module. While Redis modules can be written in any language that has C binding functionalities, writing a Redis module in C language is the easiest and most straightforward method.

In this recipe, we are going to implement a Redis module, MYMODULE, in C language with a new command ZIP, which can be called as follows:

MYMODULE.ZIP destination_hash field_list value_list  

The command takes two Redis lists and tries to create a Redis hash, whose fields are elements in field_list and corresponding values are elements of the same index in value_list.

For example, if field_list is ["john", "alex", "tom"] and value_list is ["20", "30", "40"], destination_hash will be {"john": "20", "alex": "30", "tom": 40}. If the lengths of the two lists are not equal, the longer list will be truncated to the same length of the shorter one before creating the hash (the list itself will not change after that). If there are duplicate elements...