This post will show you how to install Redis 3.x onto Ubuntu 16.04
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Redis is a server-side (Lua based) schema-free open source (in Memory) NoSQL Key/Value store database that supports replication between servers. Redis has an Eventual Consistency replication between servers (over Immediate Consistency) between servers. Eventual consistency is evil in some peoples minds, eventual consistency does require different coding considerations (to guaranteed valid data but does offer speed benefits).
Redis is the worlds 9th most popular database behind Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DB2, Microsoft Access, Cassandra. Redis is the most popular key-value store database. View the database trend chart here.
When to use Redis over MySQL or MongoDB
Here is a great guide on when to use Redis over MongoDB. Read my previous guide on building a scalable and secure MySQL Cluster.
Redis has a place where a relational database or NoSQL document stores do not (but it is more work). Read more here.
Redis is great in situations where caching or where memory is available on the server.
1 2 3 4 5 | grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 4046404 kB grep MemFree /proc/meminfo MemFree: 3559244 kB |
Free Memory
1 2 3 | free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 3951 241 3213 9 496 3474 |
Installing Redis on Ubuntu
1 2 3 | sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install redis-server |
Backup the conf file
1 | cp /etc/redis/redis.conf /etc/redis/redis.conf.bak |
Open the redis cli (and test it).
1 2 3 | redis-cli 127.0.0.1:6379> ping PONG |
Show Redis info (from the redis-cli)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 | redis-cli 127.0.0.1:6379> info # Server redis_version:3.0.6 redis_git_sha1:00000000 redis_git_dirty:0 redis_build_id:687a2a319020fa42 redis_mode:standalone os:Linux 4.4.0-116-generic x86_64 arch_bits:64 multiplexing_api:epoll gcc_version:5.3.1 process_id:17920 run_id:6b657bf624b1a91f7ba40c4c8a693024ca88d887 tcp_port:6379 uptime_in_seconds:34 uptime_in_days:0 hz:10 lru_clock:11819524 config_file:/etc/redis/redis.conf # Clients connected_clients:1 client_longest_output_list:0 client_biggest_input_buf:0 blocked_clients:0 # Memory used_memory:508784 used_memory_human:496.86K used_memory_rss:6905856 used_memory_peak:508784 used_memory_peak_human:496.86K used_memory_lua:36864 mem_fragmentation_ratio:13.57 mem_allocator:jemalloc-3.6.0 # Persistence loading:0 rdb_changes_since_last_save:0 rdb_bgsave_in_progress:0 rdb_last_save_time:1521768930 rdb_last_bgsave_status:ok rdb_last_bgsave_time_sec:-1 rdb_current_bgsave_time_sec:-1 aof_enabled:0 aof_rewrite_in_progress:0 aof_rewrite_scheduled:0 aof_last_rewrite_time_sec:-1 aof_current_rewrite_time_sec:-1 aof_last_bgrewrite_status:ok aof_last_write_status:ok # Stats total_connections_received:2 total_commands_processed:1 instantaneous_ops_per_sec:0 total_net_input_bytes:28 total_net_output_bytes:7 instantaneous_input_kbps:0.00 instantaneous_output_kbps:0.00 rejected_connections:0 sync_full:0 sync_partial_ok:0 sync_partial_err:0 expired_keys:0 evicted_keys:0 keyspace_hits:0 keyspace_misses:0 pubsub_channels:0 pubsub_patterns:0 latest_fork_usec:0 migrate_cached_sockets:0 # Replication role:master connected_slaves:0 master_repl_offset:0 repl_backlog_active:0 repl_backlog_size:1048576 repl_backlog_first_byte_offset:0 repl_backlog_histlen:0 # CPU used_cpu_sys:0.04 used_cpu_user:0.02 used_cpu_sys_children:0.00 used_cpu_user_children:0.00 # Cluster cluster_enabled:0 # Keyspace |
Benchmarking your Redis (quick)
1 2 3 | redis-benchmark -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 -t set,lpush -n 100000 -q SET: 90252.70 requests per second LPUSH: 130548.30 requests per second |
Benchmarking your Redis (slow)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 | redis-benchmark -n 100000 ====== PING_INLINE ====== 100000 requests completed in 1.34 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 97.65% <= 1 milliseconds 99.96% <= 4 milliseconds 100.00% <= 4 milliseconds 74794.31 requests per second ====== PING_BULK ====== 100000 requests completed in 1.02 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 99.74% <= 1 milliseconds 100.00% <= 1 milliseconds 98231.83 requests per second ====== SET ====== 100000 requests completed in 0.93 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 99.99% <= 1 milliseconds 100.00% <= 1 milliseconds 107066.38 requests per second ====== GET ====== 100000 requests completed in 1.03 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 99.76% <= 1 milliseconds 99.95% <= 3 milliseconds 100.00% <= 4 milliseconds 96618.36 requests per second ====== INCR ====== 100000 requests completed in 0.87 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 99.85% <= 1 milliseconds 100.00% <= 1 milliseconds 115340.26 requests per second ====== LPUSH ====== 100000 requests completed in 0.78 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 99.89% <= 1 milliseconds 100.00% <= 1 milliseconds 128205.13 requests per second ====== LPOP ====== 100000 requests completed in 0.81 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 99.61% <= 1 milliseconds 100.00% <= 1 milliseconds 124069.48 requests per second ====== SADD ====== 100000 requests completed in 1.38 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 97.02% <= 1 milliseconds 99.97% <= 2 milliseconds 99.97% <= 3 milliseconds 100.00% <= 3 milliseconds 72516.32 requests per second ====== SPOP ====== 100000 requests completed in 1.40 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 98.36% <= 1 milliseconds 99.85% <= 4 milliseconds 99.85% <= 5 milliseconds 99.92% <= 6 milliseconds 99.95% <= 10 milliseconds 100.00% <= 10 milliseconds 71326.68 requests per second ====== LPUSH (needed to benchmark LRANGE) ====== 100000 requests completed in 1.27 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 95.40% <= 1 milliseconds 99.84% <= 2 milliseconds 99.85% <= 4 milliseconds 99.92% <= 5 milliseconds 99.98% <= 6 milliseconds 100.00% <= 6 milliseconds 78492.93 requests per second ====== LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) ====== 100000 requests completed in 2.16 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 95.95% <= 1 milliseconds 99.81% <= 2 milliseconds 99.82% <= 3 milliseconds 99.84% <= 4 milliseconds 99.90% <= 5 milliseconds 99.93% <= 7 milliseconds 99.94% <= 8 milliseconds 99.98% <= 10 milliseconds 100.00% <= 10 milliseconds 46382.19 requests per second ====== LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) ====== 100000 requests completed in 5.49 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 1.99% <= 1 milliseconds 91.78% <= 2 milliseconds 98.61% <= 3 milliseconds 99.65% <= 4 milliseconds 99.81% <= 5 milliseconds 99.90% <= 6 milliseconds 99.96% <= 9 milliseconds 99.96% <= 10 milliseconds 99.98% <= 11 milliseconds 100.00% <= 11 milliseconds 18221.57 requests per second ====== LRANGE_500 (first 450 elements) ====== 100000 requests completed in 8.79 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 0.04% <= 1 milliseconds 60.33% <= 2 milliseconds 86.38% <= 3 milliseconds 97.11% <= 4 milliseconds 99.24% <= 5 milliseconds 99.54% <= 6 milliseconds 99.69% <= 7 milliseconds 99.80% <= 8 milliseconds 99.87% <= 9 milliseconds 99.90% <= 10 milliseconds 99.91% <= 11 milliseconds 99.92% <= 12 milliseconds 99.93% <= 13 milliseconds 99.98% <= 14 milliseconds 99.99% <= 15 milliseconds 100.00% <= 16 milliseconds 100.00% <= 16 milliseconds 11381.74 requests per second ====== LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) ====== 100000 requests completed in 9.66 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 0.01% <= 1 milliseconds 3.03% <= 2 milliseconds 94.78% <= 3 milliseconds 98.32% <= 4 milliseconds 98.90% <= 5 milliseconds 99.32% <= 6 milliseconds 99.60% <= 7 milliseconds 99.82% <= 8 milliseconds 99.92% <= 9 milliseconds 99.93% <= 10 milliseconds 99.94% <= 11 milliseconds 99.94% <= 12 milliseconds 99.95% <= 15 milliseconds 99.95% <= 16 milliseconds 99.95% <= 18 milliseconds 99.98% <= 19 milliseconds 99.99% <= 20 milliseconds 100.00% <= 20 milliseconds 10350.90 requests per second ====== MSET (10 keys) ====== 100000 requests completed in 1.22 seconds 50 parallel clients 3 bytes payload keep alive: 1 97.69% <= 1 milliseconds 99.95% <= 5 milliseconds 100.00% <= 6 milliseconds 82101.80 requests per second |
How to save and query a simple key/value integer
1 2 3 4 | 127.0.0.1:6379> set testvalue 123 OK 127.0.0.1:6379> get testvalue "123" |
How to save and query a simple key/value string
1 2 3 4 | 127.0.0.1:6379> set testvalue "Hello World" OK 127.0.0.1:6379> get testvalue "Hello World" |
Saving and querying multiple values
1 2 3 4 5 | 127.0.0.1:6379> mset testvalue1 "a" testvalue2 "b" OK 127.0.0.1:6379> mget testvalue1 testvalue2 1) "a" 2) "b" |
Clear all
1 2 | 127.0.0.1:6379> flushall OK |
Add to list (new items at the top)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush testlist "a" (integer) 1 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush testlist "b" (integer) 2 127.0.0.1:6379> lpush testlist "c" (integer) 3 127.0.0.1:6379> lrange testlist 0 -1 1) "c" 2) "b" 3) "a" |
Add to list (new items at the bottom)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | 127.0.0.1:6379> rpush testlist "a" (integer) 1 127.0.0.1:6379> rpush testlist "b" (integer) 2 127.0.0.1:6379> rpush testlist "c" (integer) 3 127.0.0.1:6379> lrange testlist 0 -1 1) "a" 2) "b" 3) "c" |
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v1.2 Removed reference to Redis 4 in the blurb.
v1.1 Oops, this was Redis 3 and not 4 (thanks, Patrik)
v1.0 Initial version