Redis HyperLogLog is an algorithm that uses randomization in order to provide an approximation of the number of unique elements in a set using just a constant, and small amount of memory.

HyperLogLog provides a very good approximation of the cardinality of a set even using a very small amount of memory around 12 kbytes per key with a standard error of 0.81%. There is no limit to the number of items you can count, unless you approach 2⁶⁴ items.

Example

Following example explains how Redis HyperLogLog works.

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> PFADD tutorials "redis"
1) (integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> PFADD tutorials "mongodb"
1) (integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> PFADD tutorials "mysql"
1) (integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> PFCOUNT tutorials
(integer) 3

Redis HyperLogLog Commands

Following table lists some basic commands related to Redis HyperLogLog.

Redis Sets are an unordered collection of unique strings. Unique means sets does not allow repetition of data in a key.

In Redis set add, remove, and test for the existence of members in O(1) (constant time regardless of the number of elements contained inside the Set). The maximum length of a list is 2³² – 1 elements (4294967295, more than 4 billion of elements per set).

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SADD tutorials redis
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SADD tutorials mongodb
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SADD tutorials mysql
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SADD tutorials mysql
(integer) 0
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SMEMBERS tutorials
1) "mysql"
2) "mongodb"
3) "redis"

In the above example, three values are inserted in Redis set named ‘tutorials’ by the command SADD.

Redis Sets Commands

Following table lists some basic commands related to sets.

Redis Sorted Sets are similar to Redis Sets with the unique feature of values stored in a set. The difference is, every member of a Sorted Set is associated with a score, that is used in order to take the sorted set ordered, from the smallest to the greatest score.

In Redis sorted set, add, remove, and test for the existence of members in O(1) (constant time regardless of the number of elements contained inside the set). Maximum length of a list is 2³² – 1 elements (4294967295, more than 4 billion of elements per set).

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ZADD tutorials 1 redis
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ZADD tutorials 2 mongodb
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ZADD tutorials 3 mysql
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ZADD tutorials 3 mysql
(integer) 0
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ZADD tutorials 4 mysql
(integer) 0
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ZRANGE tutorials 0 10 WITHSCORES
1) "redis"
2) "1"
3) "mongodb"
4) "2"
5) "mysql"
6) "4"

In the above example, three values are inserted with its score in Redis sorted set named ‘tutorials’ by the command ZADD.

Redis Sorted Sets Commands

Following table lists some basic commands related to sorted sets.

Redis Hashes are maps between the string fields and the string values. Hence, they are the perfect data type to represent objects.

In Redis, every hash can store up to more than 4 billion field-value pairs.

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> HMSET tutorialspoint name "redis tutorial"
description "redis basic commands for caching" likes 20 visitors 23000
OK
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> HGETALL tutorialspoint
1) "name"
2) "redis tutorial"
3) "description"
4) "redis basic commands for caching"
5) "likes"
6) "20"
7) "visitors"
8) "23000"

In the above example, we have set Redis tutorials detail (name, description, likes, visitors) in hash named ‘tutorialspoint’.

Redis Hash Commands

Following table lists some basic commands related to hash.

In Redis, there is a configuration file (redis.conf) available at the root directory of Redis. Although you can get and set all Redis configurations by Redis CONFIG command.

Syntax

Following is the basic syntax of Redis CONFIG command.

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> CONFIG GET CONFIG_SETTING_NAME

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> CONFIG GET loglevel
1) "loglevel"
2) "notice"

To get all configuration settings, use * in place of CONFIG_SETTING_NAME

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> CONFIG GET *
  1) "dbfilename"
  2) "dump.rdb"
  3) "requirepass"
  4) ""
  5) "masterauth"
  6) ""
  7) "unixsocket"
  8) ""
  9) "logfile"
 10) ""
 11) "pidfile"
 12) "/var/run/redis.pid"
 13) "maxmemory"
 14) "0"
 15) "maxmemory-samples"
 16) "3"
 17) "timeout"
 18) "0"
 19) "tcp-keepalive"
 20) "0"
 21) "auto-aof-rewrite-percentage"
 22) "100"
 23) "auto-aof-rewrite-min-size"
 24) "67108864"
 25) "hash-max-ziplist-entries"
 26) "512"
 27) "hash-max-ziplist-value"
 28) "64"
 29) "list-max-ziplist-entries"
 30) "512"
 31) "list-max-ziplist-value"
 32) "64"
 33) "set-max-intset-entries"
 34) "512"
 35) "zset-max-ziplist-entries"
 36) "128"
 37) "zset-max-ziplist-value"
 38) "64"
 39) "hll-sparse-max-bytes"
 40) "3000"
 41) "lua-time-limit"
 42) "5000"
 43) "slowlog-log-slower-than"
 44) "10000"
 45) "latency-monitor-threshold"
 46) "0"
 47) "slowlog-max-len"
 48) "128"
 49) "port"
 50) "6379"
 51) "tcp-backlog"
 52) "511"
 53) "databases"
 54) "16"
 55) "repl-ping-slave-period"
 56) "10"
 57) "repl-timeout"
 58) "60"
 59) "repl-backlog-size"
 60) "1048576"
 61) "repl-backlog-ttl"
 62) "3600"
 63) "maxclients"
 64) "4064"
 65) "watchdog-period"
 66) "0"
 67) "slave-priority"
 68) "100"
 69) "min-slaves-to-write"
 70) "0"
 71) "min-slaves-max-lag"
 72) "10"
 73) "hz"
 74) "10"
 75) "no-appendfsync-on-rewrite"
 76) "no"
 77) "slave-serve-stale-data"
 78) "yes"
 79) "slave-read-only"
 80) "yes"
 81) "stop-writes-on-bgsave-error"
 82) "yes"
 83) "daemonize"
 84) "no"
 85) "rdbcompression"
 86) "yes"
 87) "rdbchecksum"
 88) "yes"
 89) "activerehashing"
 90) "yes"
 91) "repl-disable-tcp-nodelay"
 92) "no"
 93) "aof-rewrite-incremental-fsync"
 94) "yes"
 95) "appendonly"
 96) "no"
 97) "dir"
 98) "/home/deepak/Downloads/redis-2.8.13/src"
 99) "maxmemory-policy"
100) "volatile-lru"
101) "appendfsync"
102) "everysec"
103) "save"
104) "3600 1 300 100 60 10000"
105) "loglevel"
106) "notice"
107) "client-output-buffer-limit"
108) "normal 0 0 0 slave 268435456 67108864 60 pubsub 33554432 8388608 60"
109) "unixsocketperm"
110) "0"
111) "slaveof"
112) ""
113) "notify-keyspace-events"
114) ""
115) "bind"
116) ""

Edit Configuration

To update configuration, you can edit redis.conf file directly or you can update configurations via CONFIG set command.

Syntax

Following is the basic syntax of CONFIG SET command.

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> CONFIG SET CONFIG_SETTING_NAME NEW_CONFIG_VALUE

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> CONFIG SET loglevel "notice"
OK
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> CONFIG GET loglevel
1) "loglevel"
2) "notice"

Redis strings commands are used for managing string values in Redis. Following is the syntax for using Redis string commands.

Syntax

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> COMMAND KEY_NAME

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SET tutorialspoint redis
OK
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> GET tutorialspoint
"redis"

In the above example, SET and GET are the commands, while tutorialspoint is the key.

Redis Strings Commands

Following table lists some basic commands to manage strings in Redis.

Redis commands are used to perform some operations on Redis server.

To run commands on Redis server, you need a Redis client. Redis client is available in Redis package, which we have installed earlier.

Syntax

Following is the basic syntax of Redis client.

$redis-cli

Example

Following example explains how we can start Redis client.

To start Redis client, open the terminal and type the command redis-cli. This will connect to your local server and now you can run any command.

$redis-cli
redis 127.0.0.1:6379>
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> PING
PONG

In the above example, we connect to Redis server running on the local machine and execute a command PING, that checks whether the server is running or not.

Run Commands on the Remote Server

To run commands on Redis remote server, you need to connect to the server by the same client redis-cli

Syntax

$ redis-cli -h host -p port -a password

Example

Following example shows how to connect to Redis remote server, running on host 127.0.0.1, port 6379 and has password mypass.

$redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 -a "mypass"
redis 127.0.0.1:6379>
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> PING
PONG

Redis supports 5 types of data types.

Strings

Redis string is a sequence of bytes. Strings in Redis are binary safe, meaning they have a known length not determined by any special terminating characters. Thus, you can store anything up to 512 megabytes in one string.

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> SET name "tutorialspoint"
OK
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> GET name
"tutorialspoint"

In the above example, SET and GET are Redis commands, name is the key used in Redis and tutorialspoint is the string value that is stored in Redis.

Note − A string value can be at max 512 megabytes in length.

Hashes

A Redis hash is a collection of key value pairs. Redis Hashes are maps between string fields and string values. Hence, they are used to represent objects.

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> HMSET user:1 username tutorialspoint password
tutorialspoint points 200
OK
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> HGETALL user:1
1) "username"
2) "tutorialspoint"
3) "password"
4) "tutorialspoint"
5) "points"
6) "200"

In the above example, hash data type is used to store the user”s object which contains basic information of the user. Here HMSET, HGETALL are commands for Redis, while user − 1 is the key.

Every hash can store up to 2³² – 1 field-value pairs (more than 4 billion).

Lists

Redis Lists are simply lists of strings, sorted by insertion order. You can add elements to a Redis List on the head or on the tail.

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush tutoriallist redis
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush tutoriallist mongodb
(integer) 2
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush tutoriallist rabitmq
(integer) 3
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> lrange tutoriallist 0 10

1) "rabitmq"
2) "mongodb"
3) "redis"

The max length of a list is 2³² – 1 elements (4294967295, more than 4 billion of elements per list).

Sets

Redis Sets are an unordered collection of strings. In Redis, you can add, remove, and test for the existence of members in O(1) time complexity.

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> sadd tutoriallist redis
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> sadd tutoriallist mongodb
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> sadd tutoriallist rabitmq
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> sadd tutoriallist rabitmq
(integer) 0
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> smembers tutoriallist

1) "rabitmq"
2) "mongodb"
3) "redis"

Note − In the above example, rabitmq is added twice, however due to unique property of the set, it is added only once.

The max number of members in a set is 2³² – 1 (4294967295, more than 4 billion of members per set).

Sorted Sets

Redis Sorted Sets are similar to Redis Sets, non-repeating collections of Strings. The difference is, every member of a Sorted Set is associated with a score, that is used in order to take the sorted set ordered, from the smallest to the greatest score. While members are unique, the scores may be repeated.

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> zadd tutoriallist 0 redis
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> zadd tutoriallist 0 mongodb
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> zadd tutoriallist 0 rabitmq
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> zadd tutoriallist 0 rabitmq
(integer) 0
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> ZRANGEBYSCORE tutoriallist 0 1000

1) "redis"
2) "mongodb"
3) "rabitmq"

Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store and an apt solution for building highperformance, scalable web applications.

Redis has three main peculiarities that sets it apart.

• Redis holds its database entirely in the memory, using the disk only for persistence.

• Redis has a relatively rich set of data types when compared to many key-value data stores.

• Redis can replicate data to any number of slaves.

Redis Advantages

Following are certain advantages of Redis.

• Exceptionally fast − Redis is very fast and can perform about 110000 SETs per second, about 81000 GETs per second.

• Supports rich data types − Redis natively supports most of the datatypes that developers already know such as list, set, sorted set, and hashes. This makes it easy to solve a variety of problems as we know which problem can be handled better by which data type.

• Operations are atomic − All Redis operations are atomic, which ensures that if two clients concurrently access, Redis server will receive the updated value.

• Multi-utility tool − Redis is a multi-utility tool and can be used in a number of use cases such as caching, messaging-queues (Redis natively supports Publish/Subscribe), any short-lived data in your application, such as web application sessions, web page hit counts, etc.

Redis Versus Other Key-value Stores

• Redis is a different evolution path in the key-value DBs, where values can contain more complex data types, with atomic operations defined on those data types.

• Redis is an in-memory database but persistent on disk database, hence it represents a different trade off where very high write and read speed is achieved with the limitation of data sets that can”t be larger than the memory.

• Another advantage of in-memory databases is that the memory representation of complex data structures is much simpler to manipulate compared to the same data structure on disk. Thus, Redis can do a lot with little internal complexity.

Redis Lists are simply lists of strings, sorted by insertion order. You can add elements in Redis lists in the head or the tail of the list.

Maximum length of a list is 2³² – 1 elements (4294967295, more than 4 billion of elements per list).

Example

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> LPUSH tutorials redis
(integer) 1
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> LPUSH tutorials mongodb
(integer) 2
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> LPUSH tutorials mysql
(integer) 3
redis 127.0.0.1:6379> LRANGE tutorials 0 10
1) "mysql"
2) "mongodb"
3) "redis"

In the above example, three values are inserted in Redis list named ‘tutorials’ by the command LPUSH.

Redis Lists Commands

Following table lists some basic commands related to lists.