Redis
Redis is an in-memory data structure project implementing a distributed, in-memory key-value database with optional durability. Redis supports different kinds of abstract data structures, such as strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, HyperLogLogs, bitmaps, streams, and spatial indexes.
Redis has a client-server architecture and uses a request-response model. This means that you (the client) connect to a Redis server through TCP connection, on port 6379 by default. You request some action (like some form of reading, writing, getting, setting, or updating), and the server serves you back a response.
There can be many clients talking to the same server, which is really what Redis or any client-server application is all about. Each client does a (typically blocking) read on a socket waiting for the server response.
Redis as a Python dictionary⚑
Redis stands for Remote Dictionary Service.
Broadly speaking, there are many parallels you can draw between a Python dictionary (or generic hash table) and what Redis is and does:
- A Redis database holds key:value pairs and supports commands such as GET, SET, and DEL, as well as several hundred additional commands.
- Redis keys are always strings.
- Redis values may be a number of different data types: string, list, hashes, sets and some advanced types like geospatial items and the new stream type.
- Many Redis commands operate in constant O(1) time, just like retrieving a value from a Python dict or any hash table.
Client libraries⚑
There are several ways to interact with a Redis server, such as:
- Redis-py.
- redis-cli.
