Simon Willison had a great presentation at NoSQL EU recently and published his slides and notes. It’s quite a comprehensive presentation that’s a good read for both beginners and advanced users. He presents some great use cases based off of real world examples and utilization.
http://simonwillison.net/2010/Apr/25/redis/
Salvatore has posted “part 1″ of the internals of Redis’ Virtual Memory subsystem today. Below is the intro with the link to full documentation on Google Code below.
This document details the internals of the Redis Virtual Memory subsystem. The intended audience is not the final user but programmers willing to understand or modify the Virtual Memory implementation.
Keys vs Values: what is swapped out?
The goal of the VM subsystem is to free memory transferring Redis Objects from memory to disk. This is a very generic command, but specifically, Redis transfers only objects associated with values. In order to understand better this concept we’ll show, using the DEBUG command, how a key holding a value looks from the point of view of the Redis internals.
So just yesterday we posted a tutorial on how to use redis to store relational despite relations not being supported. Soon after we published the documentation on the new redis hash type went online. Now hashes by themselves aren’t exactly relations but, more so an object field store. Extending the same concepts from our first article in namespace utilization and using hashes we can accomplish the same thing in a more formal fashion.
We will repeat the same exercise from the first article, creating a username password store, using hashes.
In the first article in our series on Redis we talked about how to get started and the basics of the simple data structures that are available in redis. The simple structures are good for basic operations like storing strings and keeping counters but, using it for anything more complex requires relating one set of data to another. At first glance this is a bit of a problem since redis by design is a flat dictionary with no relations but, with a bit of application code and adherence to some mental programming standards you can build some quite complex applications using redis.
So if you have been following NoSQL movement, the migration of some types of data to non-relational datastores has recently picked up speed. For web (and other developers) this has lead to some impressive engineering resources developing some amazing tools being open sourced for the world to use. One that caught my eye recently has been Salvatore Sanfilippo’s redis which has been taken under the wing of VMWare, solidifying and validating the great work that Salavatore has done making redis an amazing tool in any developers arsenal.
A very simplified explanation of redis is that it is an in memory key-value store like memcached but, it is persistent on disk, unlike memcached which is volatile. Along with being disk-persistent redis also supports some basic data structures like lists, sets, ordered sets, hashes, and of course basic key-value string storage like memcached. Redis, with disk-persistence and basic data structures, remains blazing fast with published benchmarks of 110,000 SETs per second, about 81,000 GETs per second.
This post is the start of a series of articles on redis for Python programmers. A prerequisite for this is going to be some basic Python knowledge, which if you haven’t used before I highly recommend the free web book Dive Into Python. This is going to be a simple overview of the basic data types and usage for Python programmers and we will slowly progress into more complex usages, so if you haven’t done anything with redis before this is a perfect start.
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