Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition

Day 1: CRUD and Datatypes

Because the command-line interface (CLI) is of such primary importance to the Redis development team—and loved by users everywhere—we’re going to spend Day 1 looking at many of the 160+ commands available. Of primary importance are Redis’s sophisticated datatypes and how they can query in ways that go far beyond simply “retrieve the value of this key.”

Getting Started

Redis is available through a few package builders such as Homebrew for Mac but is also rather painless to build from source.^[57] We’ll be working off version 3.2.8. Once you have it installed, you can start up the server by calling this:

$ redis-server

It won’t run in the background by default, but you can make that happen by appending &, or you ...