Redis Essentials

Transactions

A transaction in Redis is a sequence of commands executed in order and atomically. The command MULTI marks the beginning of a transaction, and the command EXEC marks its end. Any commands between the MULTI and EXEC commands are serialized and executed as an atomic operation. Redis does not serve any other client in the middle of a transaction.

All commands in a transaction are queued in the client and are only sent to the server when the EXEC command is executed. It is possible to prevent a transaction from being executed by using the DISCARD command instead of EXEC. Usually, Redis clients prevent a transaction from being sent to Redis if it contains command syntax errors.

Unlike in traditional SQL databases, transactions in Redis are ...