Redispresentation apac2012

Tutorial Talk

By:Ankur Gupta

http://uptosomething.in

What is Redis? Overview

• Few of the fundamental and commonly used data types in software would be string, list, hash, set.

• Redis is an in-memory key-value store. It allows you to add/update/delete the above data types as values to a key.

i.e. Key:Value aka “String”:<Data Type>. Thus named as a data structure server.

• Redis is free, fast, easy to install ,scales well as more data is inserted/operation performed.

• Following languages have libraries that communicate with redis “ActionScript, C, C++, C#, Clojure, Common Lisp, Erlang, Go, Haskell, haXe, Io, Java, server-side JavaScript (Node.js), Lua, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Pure Data, Python, Ruby, Scala, Smalltalk and Tcl “ Wikipedia

Why Should Redis Matter? Features/Use Case

• Caching server, ( e.g. memcache equivalent)

• Queue, (store user request that would take time to compute e.g. image resize on flickr/picasa)

• User Clicks (Counting), (upvote/downvote on reddit)

• Real Time Analytics for Stats, (No of users logged into chat )

• Publish – Subscribe, ( e.g. Quora/Facebook Notification system)

Modern web application require web developer to build software that responds inmilliseconds and scale as no of users/data/operations increases e.g. increase in pageviews.

Yes, You can use a database like MySql to achieve all the above but wouldn’t it be faster to hit RAM then HDD ?.

Using Redis developers can satisfy architectural paradigm found in modern web application development.

Who made Redis? Motivation, Support, Future

Salvatore Sanfilippo is founder developer of Redis since April 2009,

• Read Redis Manifesto to understand motivation behind redis,

• Vmware is the sponsor of redis project with few employees working full time on redis,

• Redis related questions on stackoverflow and answers thereof gives you a sense of community support and usage.

• Why ? Beneficial to invest time mastering tools that are supported and will be there tomorrow.

http://twitter.com/antirez


http://antirez.com/post/redis-manifesto.html

Who is using Redis ?

Installing RedisLinux System – Installation from Source

● Go to http://redis.io/download official download page

● Download source code of Current Stable Release - 2.4.14

http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.4.14.tar.gz

● Extract the source code

$ tar -xvf redis-2.4.14.tar.gz

● Redis is coded in C with dependencies being gcc and libc. If your computer doesn't have the same please use package manager and install the same.

● Execute the below commands in the directory where redis

code is extracted

$ make

$ make test

$ sudo make install

● You have Redis on your machine …

http://redis.io/download

http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.4.14.tar.gz

Running Redis After compilation you have following binaries generated

a) redis-cli – Command line to talk to redis server

b) redis-server - Redis Server

c) redis-benchmark - is used to check Redis performances

d) redis-check-aof - Fix corrupted append only data files.

e) redis-check-dump - Useful in the event of corrupted data files.

Server

$ redis-server

OR

$ redis-server /path/to/redisconfig.conf

Check redis.conf for default redis configuration used when no separate config file is

given. ( We will take a tour of the configuration file ahead )

Playing with redis-cli Start Server

$ redis-server

Help

$ redis-cli --help

Can the command line client listen to server

$ redis-cli ping

Start redis-cli interactive mode

$ redis-cli

Let us try using creating the following data structures using redis-cli

a) String

b) hashes,

c) lists,

d) sets,

e) sorted sets.

String $ redis-cli

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> set aKey aValue

OK

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get aKey

"aValue"

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> set PyConDate "8th - 9th June 2012"

OK

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get pycondate

(nil)

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get PyConDate

"8th - 9th June 2012"

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> append PyConDate ": Singapore"

(integer) 30

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get PyConDate

"8th - 9th June 2012: Singapore"

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> exists PyConDate

(integer) 1

More Stringredis 127.0.0.1:6379> setex boardingpasstosingapore 10 "Ankur Gupta"

OK

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get boardingpasstosingapore

"Ankur Gupta"

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get boardingpasstosingapore

(nil)

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> set attendance "0"

OK

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> incr attendance

(integer) 1

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get attendance

"1"


(integer) 2

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get attendance

"2"

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> set attendance "A"

OK


(error) ERR value is not an integer or out of range

Key 101 ?

● Are Byte Array. Thus binary safe.

● Obvious : Short key consume less memory vis a vi long keys.

How verbose is good you decide.

e.g. “authuser:14573:cacheenable” or “au:14573:ce”

● Good practise to create your key naming convention in codebase and sticking to it.

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> set " " "blank key ?"

OK

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get " "

"blank key ?"

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> get " "

(nil)

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> set does work "no"

(error) ERR wrong number of arguments for 'set' command

redis 127.0.0.1:6379> set "does work" "yes"

OK

Redis List

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Redis Sets

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Exercisea) Download the file

http://uptosomething.in/sghistorytimeline.csv

b) Copy the first complete line from the file

i.e. "3rd century","Early Chinese account of Singapore describes the island of Pu Luo Chung"

Take first column as key and second as value. Create a string using redis,

c) Use the 6th and 7th line and create a list with 1819 as key and respective historical events as list elements,

d) Use the 6th and 7th line and create a sorted set. Show events in reverse chronological order,

e) Use the line no 112 onwards till EOF and create a hash such that it takes Year as hashname, month+day as key, and historical event as value,

f) Find what events happened in the month of june and create any datastructure you please with them such that they expire when the event day is over. e.g. event on june 12 will get over when june 13th arrives thus will expire.


Installing Redis Python Library

https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py

redis-py is versioned after Redis. For example, redis-py 2.0.0 should support all the commands available in Redis 2.0.0.

$ cd andymccurdy-redis-py-d2a7156/$ python2.7 setup.py build$ sudo python2.7 setup.py install

redis-py exposes two client classes that implement these commands. The StrictRedis class adhere to the official command syntax/names with few exceptions. The library also offers another class that gives backward compatibility with commands that are now deprecated.


Installing Redis Python Libraries


redis-py is versioned after Redis. For example, redis-py 2.0.0 should support all the commands available in Redis 2.0.0.

$ cd andymccurdy-redis-py-d2a7156/$ python2.7 setup.py build$ sudo python2.7 setup.py install

redis-py exposes two client classes that implement these commands. The StrictRedis class adhere to the official command syntax/names with few exceptions. The library also offers another class that gives backward compatibility with commands that are now deprecated.


Redis Python Library Code Snippets

>>> import redis

>>> r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379)

>>> r.set('sg', 'singapore')

>>> r.get('sg')

'singapore'

>>> r.rpush('cities', 'Mumbai')

>>> r.lpush('Singapore')

>>> r.lrange('cities', 0 , 1)

['Mumbai', 'Singapore']

>>> r.llen('cities')

2


>>> r.sadd("interpretedlanguages", "Ruby")

1

>>> r.sadd("interpretedlanguages", "Perl")

1

>>> r.sadd("interpretedlanguages", "Basic")

1

>>> r.smembers("interpretedlanguages")

set(['Python', 'Basic', 'Ruby', 'Perl'])

>>>

>>> r.sadd("interpretedlanguages", "Perl")

0

>>> >>> r.sismember("interpretedlanguages","Java")

False

>>> r.sismember("interpretedlanguages","Basic")

True


>>> r.zadd("social", 876, "blogpost:facebook:likes")

1

>>> r.zadd("social", 2345, "blogpost:diggs:count")

1

>>> r.zadd("social", 67, "blogpost:twitter:tweets")

1

>>>

>>> data = r.zrange("socialinteraction", 0, -1, withscores=True)

>>> type(data)

<type 'list'>

>>> data[::-1]

[('blogpost:diggs:count', 2345.0), ('blogpost:facebook:likes', 876.0), ('blogpost:gplus:likes', 345.0), ('blogpost:twitter:tweets', 67.0)]

>>>

●


● >>> r.hset("travelchecklist:singapore", "airlines", "Air-India")

● 1

● >>> r.hset("travelchecklist:singapore", "currency", "1070")

● 1

● >>> r.hkeys("travelchecklist:singapore")

● ['airlines', 'currency']

● >>> r.hvals("travelchecklist:singapore")

● ['Air-India', '1070']

● >>> r.hgetall("travelchecklist:singapore")

● {'currency': '1070', 'airlines': 'Air-India'}

Exercisea) Download the file


Write a Python program that uses the redis module and try to do whatever cool idea comes in your mind with the above data and redis.


Creating Live Countersimport redis

r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379)

def vote(objectid, is_up_vote):

""" is_up_vote == true means up vote else down vote """

if not r.exists(objectid):

r.set(objectid, 1)

return 1

if is_up_vote:

return r.incr(objectid, 1)

else:

return r.decr(objectid, 1)

print vote("people who like the redis talk", True)

print vote("people who like the redis talk", False)



print vote("people who like the redis talk", False)

Real-time notification backend

● Facebook

User receives notification when his/her mention is made i.e. @user

● So we have a) Message Text

b) User who wrote the message

c) Time-stamp when the message was written

d) Other Users who were mentioned in that

message.


Lets denote ● msgsourceuser = User who wrote the message

msgtxt = Actual message

timestamp = In seconds when the msh was written since epoch

● Userlist = List of users for whom the message is meant

Ideas● Hashes

– Timestamp → user from UserList → msgtxt:msgsourceuser

● Sorted Sets

– Msgsourceuser → msgtxt:userlist → timestamp (score)

● Redis Pub / Sub

– ???


import redis

rc = redis.Redis()

psredis = rc.pubsub()

rc.publish('statusupdate', 'In Singapore with @user,@user2,@user3')

● ______________________________________________________________________

import redis

rc = redis.Redis()

psredis = rc.pubsub()

psredis.subscribe('statusupdate')

for item in psredis.listen(): # problem listen is blocking call

print item['channel']

print item['data']

●

Naive Redis Based Queue

● Let us audit an open source redis queue implementation and see what is happening inside …

Auto-complete using redis

Salvatore Sanfilippo Auto-complete implementation's code reviewhttps://gist.github.com/925979/b4689bfd8b0bc0408cd61efe674ea305f06524b9

( The above is python port of original ruby code )



https://gist.github.com/925979/b4689bfd8b0bc0408cd61efe674ea305f06524b9

Redis In Production Environment

● Daemon mode + init script● Server options and

Redis In Production Environment

● Daemon mode + init script● Server options and config file

Redis Sorted Sets

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