Learning Redis

318 Pages·2015·3.367 MB·English

by  Vinoo Das

Learning Redis
Design efficient web and business solutions with Redis
Vinoo Das
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Learning Redis
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About the Author
Vinoo Das has 16 years of experience in the software industry and has worked
in various domains, such as telecom, banking, payment gateways, information
management, and so on. He is highly motivated and loves to work on new and
upcoming technologies. He is currently architecting a platform for an information
technology giant, which will enable the company to position the platform at an
enterprise level as well as a cloud solution.
I would like to thank my parents and my family for supporting
me. I would also like to thank my friends Lokendra and Kartikeya
for helping me shape the book. I would also like to thank Packt
Publishing and the editors Manasi Pandire and Mohita Vyas for
their efforts in shaping up this book.
About the Reviewers
Dan Cartoon grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, but now spends his time in the San
Francisco Bay Area as a software engineer. He has worked at social and game-
oriented software start-ups as well as at large companies. He enjoys working in
the field of machine learning and building large-scale software systems. In his free
time, he likes to play various musical instruments and take long walks on Northern
California's foggy beaches.
I would like to thank my wife for her patience while I spent even
more time in front of the computer reviewing this book. I would also
like to thank Salvatore Sanfilippo for creating Redis and releasing it
to the world.
Munish Kumar Gupta is a lead architect working for Wipro Technologies. Based
in Bangalore, India, his day-to-day work involves solution architecture, application
performance engineering, and helping enterprises adopt open source technologies.
He is always looking for patterns while solving problems, writing code, and making
optimum use of tools and frameworks. He is the author of Akka Essentials,
Packt Publishing.
Dae Myung Kang lives in South Korea. He has more than 10 years of experience
in the software industry. His interest lies in studying in-memory cache and storage.
He currently works as a backend software engineer for Daum Kakao. He is also a
keen contributor of Redis/Twemproxy and Apache Tajo.
I would like to thank my wife, Suki, and my son, Hanyul. I will
always love you.
Jari Timonen is an experienced software enthusiast with over 10 years of experience
in the software industry. His experience includes successful team leadership combined
with understanding complex business domains and putting them into practice. He
has built enterprise architectures, designed software, and programming. Having
started his career in the finance industry, he currently works as a service architect in
a telecommunications company. He practices pair programs and is keen on studying
new technologies. When he is not building software, he is spending time with his
family, fishing, exercising, or flying his radio-controlled model helicopter. He currently
holds certifications that include Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform,
Standard Edition 5, Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Oracle Certified
Master, and Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect.
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Table of Contents
Preface vii
Chapter 1: Introduction to NoSQL 1
An Internet-enabled world 1
The NoSQL primer 5
Graph-oriented NoSQL 6
Document-oriented NoSQL 8
Salient features of MongoDB and CouchDB 10
Column-oriented NoSQL 11
Salient features of HBase and Cassandra 12
Key value-oriented NoSQL 15
How does Redis fare in some of the nonfunctional requirements as
a key-value datastore? 15
Use cases of NoSQL 16
Summary 20
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Redis 21
Installing Redis on Windows 21
Installing Redis on Mac OS 24
Introduction to redis.conf 25
Hello World in Redis 26
Hello World using redis-cli 26
Hello World using Java 28
Installing Jedis and creating an environment 29
Writing the program 30
Shutting down the server 31
Loading a test Hello World program in Redis 34
Summary 36
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