Mastering GitLab 12

Basic data operations in Redis

We can discover some of the basics of Redis by playing with the data structures. You can install Redis using instructions found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-GitLab-12/tree/master/Chapter01/InstallingRedis.md.

Start the redis-cli command-line utility, and it will connect to the local Redis server:

$redis-cli127.0.0.1:6379>

It is not fair to view Redis as a simple hash database with key values. But still, the five data structures that are provided do actually consist of a key and a value. Let's sum up the five data structures:

• String: You can use the set command to write a value to Redis. In the case of a simple string, you can simply save the value in the datastore shown as follows. After ...