The npm package 'redis' is a Node.js client for Redis, a fast, open-source, in-memory key-value data store for use as a database, cache, message broker, and queue. The package allows Node.js applications to interact with Redis servers using an asynchronous, event-driven model.
Connecting to Redis
This code sample demonstrates how to connect to a Redis server using the redis npm package. It requires the package, creates a client, and listens for the 'connect' event to confirm the connection.
const redis = require('redis');
const client = redis.createClient();
client.on('connect', function() {
console.log('Connected to Redis');
});Setting and Getting Data
This code sample shows how to set a key-value pair in Redis and then retrieve the value associated with a key. The 'redis.print' callback is used to output the result of the 'set' operation.
client.set('key', 'value', redis.print);
client.get('key', function(err, reply) {
console.log(reply); // prints 'value'
});Working with Lists
This code sample illustrates how to work with Redis lists by pushing values to the end of a list and then retrieving the entire list.
client.rpush(['list', 'value1', 'value2'], redis.print);
client.lrange('list', 0, -1, function(err, reply) {
console.log(reply); // prints ['value1', 'value2']
});Publish/Subscribe
This code sample demonstrates the publish/subscribe capabilities of Redis. It creates a subscriber client that listens for messages on a channel and a publisher client that publishes a message to that channel.
const subscriber = redis.createClient();
const publisher = redis.createClient();
subscriber.on('message', function(channel, message) {
console.log('Message: ' + message + ' on channel: ' + channel);
});
subscriber.subscribe('notification');
publisher.publish('notification', 'Hello, World!');Transactions
This code sample shows how to use Redis transactions to execute multiple commands atomically using the 'multi' and 'exec' methods.
client.multi()
.set('key', 'value')
.incr('counter')
.exec(function(err, replies) {
console.log(replies); // prints results of all commands
});ioredis is a robust, performance-focused, and full-featured Redis client for Node.js. It supports Redis Cluster, Sentinel, pipelining, Lua scripting, and more. Compared to the 'redis' package, ioredis offers a more modern interface with Promises support and better performance for certain operations.
node-redis is another Redis client for Node.js that is designed to be easy to use. It may not have as many features as 'redis' or 'ioredis', but it provides a straightforward way to interact with Redis servers for simple use cases.
redis-mock is a library that simulates a Redis server for testing purposes. It implements most of the Redis commands and can be used as a drop-in replacement for the 'redis' package during testing, without the need for an actual Redis server.
This is a complete Redis client for node.js. It supports all Redis commands, including many recently added commands like EVAL from experimental Redis server branches.
Install with:
npm install redis
Pieter Noordhuis has provided a binding to the official hiredis C library, which is non-blocking and fast. To use hiredis, do:
npm install hiredis redis
If hiredis is installed, node_redis will use it by default. Otherwise, a pure JavaScript parser will be used.
If you use hiredis, be sure to rebuild it whenever you upgrade your version of node. There are mysterious failures that can
happen between node and native code modules after a node upgrade.
Simple example, included as examples/simple.js:
var redis = require("redis"),
client = redis.createClient();
// if you'd like to select database 3, instead of 0 (default), call
// client.select(3, function() { /* ... */ });
client.on("error", function (err) {
console.log("Error " + err);
});
client.set("string key", "string val", redis.print);
client.hset("hash key", "hashtest 1", "some value", redis.print);
client.hset(["hash key", "hashtest 2", "some other value"], redis.print);
client.hkeys("hash key", function (err, replies) {
console.log(replies.length + " replies:");
replies.forEach(function (reply, i) {
console.log(" " + i + ": " + reply);
});
client.quit();
});
This will display:
mjr:~/work/node_redis (master)$ node example.js
Reply: OK
Reply: 0
Reply: 0
2 replies:
0: hashtest 1
1: hashtest 2
mjr:~/work/node_redis (master)$
Here are typical results of multi_bench.js which is similar to redis-benchmark from the Redis distribution.
It uses 50 concurrent connections with no pipelining.
JavaScript parser:
PING: 20000 ops 42283.30 ops/sec 0/5/1.182
SET: 20000 ops 32948.93 ops/sec 1/7/1.515
GET: 20000 ops 28694.40 ops/sec 0/9/1.740
INCR: 20000 ops 39370.08 ops/sec 0/8/1.269
LPUSH: 20000 ops 36429.87 ops/sec 0/8/1.370
LRANGE (10 elements): 20000 ops 9891.20 ops/sec 1/9/5.048
LRANGE (100 elements): 20000 ops 1384.56 ops/sec 10/91/36.072
hiredis parser:
PING: 20000 ops 46189.38 ops/sec 1/4/1.082
SET: 20000 ops 41237.11 ops/sec 0/6/1.210
GET: 20000 ops 39682.54 ops/sec 1/7/1.257
INCR: 20000 ops 40080.16 ops/sec 0/8/1.242
LPUSH: 20000 ops 41152.26 ops/sec 0/3/1.212
LRANGE (10 elements): 20000 ops 36563.07 ops/sec 1/8/1.363
LRANGE (100 elements): 20000 ops 21834.06 ops/sec 0/9/2.287
The performance of node_redis improves dramatically with pipelining, which happens automatically in most normal programs.
Each Redis command is exposed as a function on the client object.
All functions take either an args Array plus optional callback Function or
a variable number of individual arguments followed by an optional callback.
Here is an example of passing an array of arguments and a callback:
client.mset(["test keys 1", "test val 1", "test keys 2", "test val 2"], function (err, res) {});
Here is that same call in the second style:
client.mset("test keys 1", "test val 1", "test keys 2", "test val 2", function (err, res) {});
Note that in either form the callback is optional:
client.set("some key", "some val");
client.set(["some other key", "some val"]);
If the key is missing, reply will be null (probably):
client.get("missingkey", function(err, reply) {
// reply is null when the key is missing
console.log(reply);
});
For a list of Redis commands, see Redis Command Reference
The commands can be specified in uppercase or lowercase for convenience. client.get() is the same as client.GET().
Minimal parsing is done on the replies. Commands that return a single line reply return JavaScript Strings,
integer replies return JavaScript Numbers, "bulk" replies return node Buffers, and "multi bulk" replies return a
JavaScript Array of node Buffers. HGETALL returns an Object with Buffers keyed by the hash keys.
client will emit some events about the state of the connection to the Redis server.
client will emit ready a connection is established to the Redis server and the server reports
that it is ready to receive commands. Commands issued before the ready event are queued,
then replayed just before this event is emitted.
client will emit connect at the same time as it emits ready unless client.options.no_ready_check
is set. If this options is set, connect will be emitted when the stream is connected, and then
you are free to try to send commands.
client will emit error when encountering an error connecting to the Redis server.
Note that "error" is a special event type in node. If there are no listeners for an "error" event, node will exit. This is usually what you want, but it can lead to some cryptic error messages like this:
mjr:~/work/node_redis (master)$ node example.js
node.js:50
throw e;
^
Error: ECONNREFUSED, Connection refused
at IOWatcher.callback (net:870:22)
at node.js:607:9
Not very useful in diagnosing the problem, but if your program isn't ready to handle this, it is probably the right thing to just exit.
client will also emit error if an exception is thrown inside of node_redis for whatever reason.
It would be nice to distinguish these two cases.
client will emit end when an established Redis server connection has closed.
client will emit drain when the TCP connection to the Redis server has been buffering, but is now
writable. This event can be used to stream commands in to Redis and adapt to backpressure. Right now,
you need to check client.command_queue.length to decide when to reduce your send rate. Then you can
resume sending when you get drain.
client will emit idle when there are no outstanding commands that are awaiting a response.
Create a new client connection. port defaults to 6379 and host defaults
to 127.0.0.1. If you have redis-server running on the same computer as node, then the defaults for
port and host are probably fine. options in an object with the following possible properties:
parser: which Redis protocol reply parser to use. Defaults to hiredis if that module is installed.
This may also be set to javascript.return_buffers: defaults to false. If set to true, then all replies will be sent to callbacks as node Buffer
objects instead of JavaScript Strings.detect_buffers: default to false. If set to true, then replies will be sent to callbacks as node Buffer objects
if any of the input arguments to the original command were Buffer objects.
This option lets you switch between Buffers and Strings on a per-command basis, whereas return_buffers applies to
every command on a client.socket_nodelay: defaults to true. Whether to call setNoDelay() on the TCP stream, which disables the
Nagle algorithm on the underlying socket. Setting this option to false can result in additional throughput at the
cost of more latency. Most applications will want this set to true.no_ready_check: defaults to false. When a connection is established to the Redis server, the server might still
be loading the database from disk. While loading, the server not respond to any commands. To work around this,
node_redis has a "ready check" which sends the INFO command to the server. The response from the INFO command
indicates whether the server is ready for more commands. When ready, node_redis emits a ready event.
Setting no_ready_check to true will inhibit this check.enable_offline_queue: defaults to true. By default, if there is no active
connection to the redis server, commands are added to a queue and are executed
once the connection has been established. Setting enable_offline_queue to
false will disable this feature and the callback will be execute immediately
with an error, or an error will be thrown if no callback is specified.retry_max_delay: defaults to null. By default every time the client tries to connect and fails time before
reconnection (delay) almost doubles. This delay normally grows infinitely, but setting retry_max_delay limits delay
to maximum value, provided in milliseconds.connect_timeout defaults to false. By default client will try reconnecting until connected. Setting connect_timeout
limits total time for client to reconnect. Value is provided in milliseconds and is counted once the disconnect occured.max_attempts defaults to null. By default client will try reconnecting until connected. Setting max_attempts
limits total amount of reconnects.auth_pass defaults to null. By default client will try connecting without auth. If set, client will run redis auth command on connect. var redis = require("redis"),
client = redis.createClient(null, null, {detect_buffers: true});
client.set("foo_rand000000000000", "OK");
// This will return a JavaScript String
client.get("foo_rand000000000000", function (err, reply) {
console.log(reply.toString()); // Will print `OK`
});
// This will return a Buffer since original key is specified as a Buffer
client.get(new Buffer("foo_rand000000000000"), function (err, reply) {
console.log(reply.toString()); // Will print `<Buffer 4f 4b>`
});
client.end();
createClient() returns a RedisClient object that is named client in all of the examples here.
When connecting to Redis servers that require authentication, the AUTH command must be sent as the
first command after connecting. This can be tricky to coordinate with reconnections, the ready check,
etc. To make this easier, client.auth() stashes password and will send it after each connection,
including reconnections. callback is invoked only once, after the response to the very first
AUTH command sent.
NOTE: Your call to client.auth() should not be inside the ready handler. If
you are doing this wrong, client will emit an error that looks
something like this Error: Ready check failed: ERR operation not permitted.
Forcibly close the connection to the Redis server. Note that this does not wait until all replies have been parsed.
If you want to exit cleanly, call client.quit() to send the QUIT command after you have handled all replies.
This example closes the connection to the Redis server before the replies have been read. You probably don't want to do this:
var redis = require("redis"),
client = redis.createClient();
client.set("foo_rand000000000000", "some fantastic value");
client.get("foo_rand000000000000", function (err, reply) {
console.log(reply.toString());
});
client.end();
client.end() is useful for timeout cases where something is stuck or taking too long and you want
to start over.
Call unref() on the underlying socket connection to the Redis server, allowing the program to exit once no more commands are pending.
This is an experimental feature, and only supports a subset of the Redis protocol. Any commands where client state is saved on the Redis server, e.g. *SUBSCRIBE or the blocking BL* commands will NOT work with .unref().
var redis = require("redis")
var client = redis.createClient()
/*
Calling unref() will allow this program to exit immediately after the get command finishes. Otherwise the client would hang as long as the client-server connection is alive.
*/
client.unref()
client.get("foo", function (err, value){
if (err) throw(err)
console.log(value)
})
Most Redis commands take a single String or an Array of Strings as arguments, and replies are sent back as a single String or an Array of Strings. When dealing with hash values, there are a couple of useful exceptions to this.
The reply from an HGETALL command will be converted into a JavaScript Object by node_redis. That way you can interact
with the responses using JavaScript syntax.
Example:
client.hmset("hosts", "mjr", "1", "another", "23", "home", "1234");
client.hgetall("hosts", function (err, obj) {
console.dir(obj);
});
Output:
{ mjr: '1', another: '23', home: '1234' }
Multiple values in a hash can be set by supplying an object:
client.HMSET(key2, {
"0123456789": "abcdefghij", // NOTE: key and value will be coerced to strings
"some manner of key": "a type of value"
});
The properties and values of this Object will be set as keys and values in the Redis hash.
Multiple values may also be set by supplying a list:
client.HMSET(key1, "0123456789", "abcdefghij", "some manner of key", "a type of value");
Here is a simple example of the API for publish / subscribe. This program opens two client connections, subscribes to a channel on one of them, and publishes to that channel on the other:
var redis = require("redis"),
client1 = redis.createClient(), client2 = redis.createClient(),
msg_count = 0;
client1.on("subscribe", function (channel, count) {
client2.publish("a nice channel", "I am sending a message.");
client2.publish("a nice channel", "I am sending a second message.");
client2.publish("a nice channel", "I am sending my last message.");
});
client1.on("message", function (channel, message) {
console.log("client1 channel " + channel + ": " + message);
msg_count += 1;
if (msg_count === 3) {
client1.unsubscribe();
client1.end();
client2.end();
}
});
client1.incr("did a thing");
client1.subscribe("a nice channel");
When a client issues a SUBSCRIBE or PSUBSCRIBE, that connection is put into a "subscriber" mode.
At that point, only commands that modify the subscription set are valid. When the subscription
set is empty, the connection is put back into regular mode.
If you need to send regular commands to Redis while in subscriber mode, just open another connection.
If a client has subscriptions active, it may emit these events:
Client will emit message for every message received that matches an active subscription.
Listeners are passed the channel name as channel and the message Buffer as message.
Client will emit pmessage for every message received that matches an active subscription pattern.
Listeners are passed the original pattern used with PSUBSCRIBE as pattern, the sending channel
name as channel, and the message Buffer as message.
Client will emit subscribe in response to a SUBSCRIBE command. Listeners are passed the
channel name as channel and the new count of subscriptions for this client as count.
Client will emit psubscribe in response to a PSUBSCRIBE command. Listeners are passed the
original pattern as pattern, and the new count of subscriptions for this client as count.
Client will emit unsubscribe in response to a UNSUBSCRIBE command. Listeners are passed the
channel name as channel and the new count of subscriptions for this client as count. When
count is 0, this client has left subscriber mode and no more subscriber events will be emitted.
Client will emit punsubscribe in response to a PUNSUBSCRIBE command. Listeners are passed the
channel name as channel and the new count of subscriptions for this client as count. When
count is 0, this client has left subscriber mode and no more subscriber events will be emitted.
MULTI commands are queued up until an EXEC is issued, and then all commands are run atomically by
Redis. The interface in node_redis is to return an individual Multi object by calling client.multi().
var redis = require("./index"),
client = redis.createClient(), set_size = 20;
client.sadd("bigset", "a member");
client.sadd("bigset", "another member");
while (set_size > 0) {
client.sadd("bigset", "member " + set_size);
set_size -= 1;
}
// multi chain with an individual callback
client.multi()
.scard("bigset")
.smembers("bigset")
.keys("*", function (err, replies) {
// NOTE: code in this callback is NOT atomic
// this only happens after the the .exec call finishes.
client.mget(replies, redis.print);
})
.dbsize()
.exec(function (err, replies) {
console.log("MULTI got " + replies.length + " replies");
replies.forEach(function (reply, index) {
console.log("Reply " + index + ": " + reply.toString());
});
});
client.multi() is a constructor that returns a Multi object. Multi objects share all of the
same command methods as client objects do. Commands are queued up inside the Multi object
until Multi.exec() is invoked.
The callback of .exec() will get invoked with two arguments:
err type: null | Array err is either null or an array of Error Objects corresponding the the sequence the commands where chained. The last item of the array will always be an EXECABORT type of error originating from the .exec() itself.results type: null | Array results is an array of responses corresponding the the sequence the commands where chained.You can either chain together MULTI commands as in the above example, or you can queue individual
commands while still sending regular client command as in this example:
var redis = require("redis"),
client = redis.createClient(), multi;
// start a separate multi command queue
multi = client.multi();
multi.incr("incr thing", redis.print);
multi.incr("incr other thing", redis.print);
// runs immediately
client.mset("incr thing", 100, "incr other thing", 1, redis.print);
// drains multi queue and runs atomically
multi.exec(function (err, replies) {
console.log(replies); // 101, 2
});
// you can re-run the same transaction if you like
multi.exec(function (err, replies) {
console.log(replies); // 102, 3
client.quit();
});
In addition to adding commands to the MULTI queue individually, you can also pass an array
of commands and arguments to the constructor:
var redis = require("redis"),
client = redis.createClient(), multi;
client.multi([
["mget", "multifoo", "multibar", redis.print],
["incr", "multifoo"],
["incr", "multibar"]
]).exec(function (err, replies) {
console.log(replies);
});
Redis supports the MONITOR command, which lets you see all commands received by the Redis server
across all client connections, including from other client libraries and other computers.
After you send the MONITOR command, no other commands are valid on that connection. node_redis
will emit a monitor event for every new monitor message that comes across. The callback for the
monitor event takes a timestamp from the Redis server and an array of command arguments.
Here is a simple example:
var client = require("redis").createClient(),
util = require("util");
client.monitor(function (err, res) {
console.log("Entering monitoring mode.");
});
client.on("monitor", function (time, args) {
console.log(time + ": " + util.inspect(args));
});
Some other things you might like to know about.
After the ready probe completes, the results from the INFO command are saved in the client.server_info
object.
The versions key contains an array of the elements of the version string for easy comparison.
> client.server_info.redis_version
'2.3.0'
> client.server_info.versions
[ 2, 3, 0 ]
A handy callback function for displaying return values when testing. Example:
var redis = require("redis"),
client = redis.createClient();
client.on("connect", function () {
client.set("foo_rand000000000000", "some fantastic value", redis.print);
client.get("foo_rand000000000000", redis.print);
});
This will print:
Reply: OK
Reply: some fantastic value
Note that this program will not exit cleanly because the client is still connected.
Boolean to enable debug mode and protocol tracing.
var redis = require("redis"),
client = redis.createClient();
redis.debug_mode = true;
client.on("connect", function () {
client.set("foo_rand000000000000", "some fantastic value");
});
This will display:
mjr:~/work/node_redis (master)$ node ~/example.js
send command: *3
$3
SET
$20
foo_rand000000000000
$20
some fantastic value
on_data: +OK
send command is data sent into Redis and on_data is data received from Redis.
To execute redis multi-word commands like SCRIPT LOAD or CLIENT LIST pass
the second word as first parameter:
client.script('load', 'return 1');
client.multi().script('load', 'return 1').exec(...);
client.multi([['script', 'load', 'return 1']]).exec(...);
Used internally to send commands to Redis. For convenience, nearly all commands that are published on the Redis
Wiki have been added to the client object. However, if I missed any, or if new commands are introduced before
this library is updated, you can use send_command() to send arbitrary commands to Redis.
All commands are sent as multi-bulk commands. args can either be an Array of arguments, or omitted.
Boolean tracking the state of the connection to the Redis server.
The number of commands that have been sent to the Redis server but not yet replied to. You can use this to enforce some kind of maximum queue depth for commands while connected.
Don't mess with client.command_queue though unless you really know what you are doing.
The number of commands that have been queued up for a future connection. You can use this to enforce some kind of maximum queue depth for pre-connection commands.
Current delay in milliseconds before a connection retry will be attempted. This starts at 250.
Multiplier for future retry timeouts. This should be larger than 1 to add more time between retries. Defaults to 1.7. The default initial connection retry is 250, so the second retry will be 425, followed by 723.5, etc.
This applies to anything that uses an optional [WITHSCORES] or [LIMIT offset count] in the redis.io/commands documentation.
Example:
var args = [ 'myzset', 1, 'one', 2, 'two', 3, 'three', 99, 'ninety-nine' ];
client.zadd(args, function (err, response) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log('added '+response+' items.');
// -Infinity and +Infinity also work
var args1 = [ 'myzset', '+inf', '-inf' ];
client.zrevrangebyscore(args1, function (err, response) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log('example1', response);
// write your code here
});
var max = 3, min = 1, offset = 1, count = 2;
var args2 = [ 'myzset', max, min, 'WITHSCORES', 'LIMIT', offset, count ];
client.zrevrangebyscore(args2, function (err, response) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log('example2', response);
// write your code here
});
});
Better tests for auth, disconnect/reconnect, and all combinations thereof.
Stream large set/get values into and out of Redis. Otherwise the entire value must be in node's memory.
Performance can be better for very large values.
I think there are more performance improvements left in there for smaller values, especially for large lists of small values.
Some people have have added features and fixed bugs in node_redis other than me.
Ordered by date of first contribution. Auto-generated on Wed Jul 25 2012 19:14:59 GMT-0700 (PDT).
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