Redis DB

Agenda
 Redis DB Overview
 Merits and Demerits of Redis
 Difference with Cassandra
 Installation Steps
 Most useful Redis command
 Q &A
 Overview
Redis is an open-source, advanced key-value store and an apt solution for
building high-performance, scalable web applications. Redis is written in
ANSI C

Redis has three main peculiarities that set it apart.

Its database is entirely in the memory, using the disk only for persistence.
It has a relatively rich set of data types when compared to many key-value
data stores.
It can replicate data to any number of slaves.
 Advantages

• Redis is an open-source (BSD licensed)

• Exceptionally fast
• Supports rich data types
• Operations are atomic
• Multi-utility tool
• Supports master-slave asynchronous and synchronous replication
 Disadvantages
• When using master-slave cluster, If the Master becomes down then all
slave clusters are very much prone to go down.
• The whole dataset always resides in RAM. It can cause performance
degradation if the correct implementation is not in place.
• There is no easy way to run something like SELECT COUNT(*) FROM
REDIS WHERE KEY LIKE '*key*'
 Differences
Redis DB
• It uses a key-value store as a primary database and
that helps the tool to be more dynamic and handle
varying datasets. It is also used as a message
broker process, and queuing process.
• It is much faster than Cassandra, but it gets slower
if you use it for huge data sets and is ideally suited
for rapidly changing datasets
• It works on C programming. It is also schema-free,
and it uses the telnet protocol for API.
• It is used more in session caching, queuing,
counting, publish-subscribe pattern, and in full-page
caching. It is more useful when you have in-memory
data storage, vertically scalable database
Cassandra DB
•  It uses a wide-column store as a primary database
model, making it easy to store huge databases. The
wide-column store acts as a two-dimensional key-
value store as the record keys are not fixed in this
model.
• It is more focussed on giving you stability, and
hence like SQL, you can store huge data sets. But,
it is slower in speed than that of Redis.
• It works on java programming, it is schema-free,
and it uses thrift protocol for API fetching.
• It is more useful when you have distributed, linearly
scalable, write-oriented, and democratic peer to
peer database or data structure
 Steps to install redis on
Centos

• sudo yum install epel-release sudo yum update

• sudo yum install redis
• sudo systemctl start redis

Check if redis is working or not :

• redis-cli
• This will open a redis prompt >> redis 127.0.0.1:6379>
• So server is installed successfully
 Useful Redis command
To connect to redis server :
./redis-cli -h 10.xx.xx.xx -p <<port_no>>
AUTH <<Password>>
To select one DB :
SELECT <<DB Number>> (exp: SELECT 1, SELECT 2)
To Insert new Key in DB :            
SET <<KEY_NAME>> redis
To Delete key from DB :
DEL <<KEY_NAME>>
To check whether key  exists or not :
EXISTS <<KEY_NAME>>
 Useful Redis command
To get a list of all the keys available in Redis :
KEYS *
To get the remaining time of the key expiry in seconds :
TTL <<KEY_NAME>>
To set the expiry of a key in seconds :
Expire <<KEY_NAME>> <<TIME_IN_SECONDS>>
To get the data type of the key :
TYPE <<KEY_NAME>>
To get the value stored in the key :
GET <<KEY_NAME>>
Thank You