Getting started with Redis

As per redis home page,

"Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes with radius queries."

Redis Installation Steps:

I am trying the below steps in an ubuntu 14.04 system. Open the terminal and issue the below commands:

1. Get the latest tar zip for redis (http://redis.io/download)

$ cd /path/to/download/directory/
$ wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-3.0.7.tar.gz

2. Untar it and issue below commands:

$ tar xf redis-3.0.7.tar.gz

$ cd redis-3.0.7

$ make

$ sudo make install

Getting started with Redis:

1. Run redis server in one console:

$ redis-server

or as a background process:

$ redis-server &

2. You can interact with redis now using the built-in client in console:

$ redis-cli

redis> set name Satej

OK

redis> get name

"Satej"

If you are a newbie at Redis like me, give a try at the online interactive tutorial: http://try.redis.io/. It's real fun and easy.

I learnt some basic data types and their related operations from the tutorial:
- integer
- string
- list
- set
- sorted sets
- hashes