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 and feature rich Redis client for node.js. It supports all Redis commands and focuses on high performance.
Install with:
npm install redis
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)$
Note that the API is entire asynchronous. To get data back from the server, you'll need to use a callback. The return value from most of the API is a backpressure indicator.
You can also use node_redis with promises by promisifying node_redis with bluebird as in:
var redis = require('redis');
bluebird.promisifyAll(redis.RedisClient.prototype);
bluebird.promisifyAll(redis.Multi.prototype);
It'll add a Async to all node_redis functions (e.g. return client.getAsync().then())
// We expect a value 'foo': 'bar' to be present
// So instead of writing client.get('foo', cb); you have to write:
return client.getAsync('foo').then(function(res) {
console.log(res); // => 'bar'
});
// Using multi with promises looks like:
return client.multi().get('foo').execAsync().then(function(res) {
console.log(res); // => 'bar'
});
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 are examples how to use the api:
client.hmset(["key", "test keys 1", "test val 1", "test keys 2", "test val 2"], function (err, res) {});
// Works the same as
client.hmset("key", ["test keys 1", "test val 1", "test keys 2", "test val 2"], function (err, res) {});
// Or
client.hmset("key", "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. Only if the Redis Command Reference states something else it will not be null.
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 once a connection is established. 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.
client will emit reconnecting when trying to reconnect to the Redis server after losing the connection. Listeners
are passed an object containing delay (in ms) and attempt (the attempt #) attributes.
client will emit error when encountering an error connecting to the Redis server or when any other in node_redis occurs.
So please attach the error listener to node_redis.
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.
If the stream is buffering client.should_buffer is set to true. Otherwise the variable is always set to false.
That way you can decide when to reduce your send rate and resume sending commands when you get drain.
You can also check the return value of each command as it will also return the backpressure indicator. If false is returned the stream had to buffer.
client will emit idle when there are no outstanding commands that are awaiting a response.
If you have redis-server running on the same computer as node, then the defaults for
port and host are probably fine and you don't need to supply any arguments. createClient() returns a RedisClient object.
redis.createClient()redis.createClient(options)redis.createClient(unix_socket, options)redis.createClient('redis://user:pass@host:port', options)redis.createClient(port, host, options)options is an object with the following possible properties:host: 127.0.0.1; The host to connect toport: 6370; The port to connect topath: null; The unix socket string to connect tourl: null; The redis url to connect toparser: hiredis; Which Redis protocol reply parser to use. If hiredis is not installed it will fallback to javascript.return_buffers: false; If set to true, then all replies will be sent to callbacks as Buffers instead of Strings.detect_buffers: false; If set to true, then replies will be sent to callbacks as Buffers. Please be aware that this can't work properly with the pubsub mode. A subscriber has to either always return strings or buffers.
if any of the input arguments to the original command were Buffers.
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: true; Disables the Nagle algorithm.
Setting this option to false can result in additional throughput at the cost of more latency.
Most applications will want this set to true.socket_keepalive true; Whether the keep-alive functionality is enabled on the underlying socket.no_ready_check: false; When a connection is established to the Redis server, the server might still
be loading the database from disk. While loading the server will 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: 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 executed immediately
with an error, or an error will be emitted if no callback is specified.retry_max_delay: null; By default every time the client tries to connect and fails the reconnection delay almost doubles.
This delay normally grows infinitely, but setting retry_max_delay limits it to the maximum value, provided in milliseconds.connect_timeout: 3600000; Setting connect_timeout limits total time for client to connect and reconnect.
The value is provided in milliseconds and is counted from the moment on a new client is created / a connection is lost. The last retry is going to happen exactly at the timeout time.
Default is to try connecting until the default system socket timeout has been exceeded and to try reconnecting until 1h passed.max_attempts: 0; By default client will try reconnecting until connected. Setting max_attempts
limits total amount of connection tries. Setting this to 1 will prevent any reconnect tries.auth_pass: null; If set, client will run redis auth command on connect.family: IPv4; You can force using IPv6 if you set the family to 'IPv6'. See Node.js net or dns modules how to use the family type.disable_resubscribing: false; If set to true, a client won't resubscribe after disconnectingrename_commands: null; pass a object with renamed commands to use those instead of the original functions. See the redis security topics for more info.tls: an object containing options to pass to tls.connect,
to set up a TLS connection to Redis (if, for example, it is set up to be accessible via a tunnel).prefix: null; pass a string to prefix all used keys with that string as prefix e.g. 'namespace:test'var redis = require("redis"),
client = redis.createClient({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();
When connecting to a Redis server that requires 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.
If flush is set to true, all still running commands will be rejected instead of ignored after using .end.
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.end(); // No further commands will be processed
client.get("foo_rand000000000000", function (err, reply) {
// This won't be called anymore, since flush has not been set to true!
console.log(err);
});
client.end() without the flush parameter should not be used in production!
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.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().
If any command fails to queue, all commands are rolled back and none is going to be executed (For further information look at transactions).
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.
If your code contains an syntax error an EXECABORT error is going to be thrown and all commands are going to be aborted. That error contains a .errors property that contains the concret errors.
If all commands were queued successfully and an error is thrown by redis while processing the commands that error is going to be returned in the result array! No other command is going to be aborted though than the onces failing.
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
});
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);
});
Identical to Multi.exec but with the difference that executing a single command will not use transactions.
Identical to .multi without transactions. This is recommended if you want to execute many commands at once but don't have to rely on transactions.
BATCH 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 Batch object by calling client.batch().
The only difference between .batch and .multi is that no transaction is going to be used.
Be aware that the errors are - just like in multi statements - in the result. Otherwise both, errors and results could be returned at the same time.
If you fire many commands at once this is going to boost the execution speed by up to 400% [sic!] compared to fireing the same commands in a loop without waiting for the result! See the benchmarks for further comparison. Please remember that all commands are kept in memory until they are fired.
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.
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(...);
Duplicate all current options and return a new redisClient instance. All options passed to the duplicate function are going to replace the original option.
Used internally to send commands to Redis. Nearly all Redis commands have been added to the client object.
However, if new commands are introduced before this library is updated, you can use send_command() to send arbitrary commands to Redis.
The command has to be lower case.
All commands are sent as multi-bulk commands. args can either be an Array of arguments, or omitted / set to undefined.
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 200.
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 200, so the second retry will be 340, followed by 578, 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
});
});
Much effort has been spent to make node_redis as fast as possible for common
operations. As pipelining happens naturally from shared connections, overall
efficiency goes up.
Here are results of multi_bench.js which is similar to redis-benchmark from the Redis distribution.
hiredis parser (Lenovo T450s i7-5600U):
Client count: 1, node version: 4.2.2, server version: 3.0.3, parser: hiredis
PING, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.02/ 0.00 2501ms total, 47503.80 ops/sec
PING, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.09/ 1.00 2501ms total, 529668.13 ops/sec
SET 4B str, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.02/ 0.00 2501ms total, 41900.04 ops/sec
SET 4B str, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.14/ 1.00 2501ms total, 354658.14 ops/sec
SET 4B buf, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 4/ 0.04/ 0.00 2501ms total, 23499.00 ops/sec
SET 4B buf, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.31/ 1.00 2501ms total, 159836.07 ops/sec
GET 4B str, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 4/ 0.02/ 0.00 2501ms total, 43489.80 ops/sec
GET 4B str, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.11/ 1.00 2501ms total, 444202.32 ops/sec
GET 4B buf, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 3/ 0.02/ 0.00 2501ms total, 38561.38 ops/sec
GET 4B buf, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.11/ 1.00 2501ms total, 452139.14 ops/sec
SET 4KiB str, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.03/ 0.00 2501ms total, 32990.80 ops/sec
SET 4KiB str, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.34/ 1.00 2501ms total, 146161.54 ops/sec
SET 4KiB buf, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 1/ 0.04/ 0.00 2501ms total, 23294.28 ops/sec
SET 4KiB buf, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.36/ 1.00 2501ms total, 137584.97 ops/sec
GET 4KiB str, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.03/ 0.00 2501ms total, 36350.66 ops/sec
GET 4KiB str, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.32/ 1.00 2501ms total, 155157.94 ops/sec
GET 4KiB buf, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 4/ 0.02/ 0.00 2501ms total, 39776.49 ops/sec
GET 4KiB buf, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.32/ 1.00 2501ms total, 155457.82 ops/sec
INCR, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 3/ 0.02/ 0.00 2501ms total, 43972.41 ops/sec
INCR, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 1/ 0.12/ 1.00 2501ms total, 425809.68 ops/sec
LPUSH, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.02/ 0.00 2501ms total, 38998.40 ops/sec
LPUSH, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 4/ 0.14/ 1.00 2501ms total, 365013.99 ops/sec
LRANGE 10, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 2/ 0.03/ 0.00 2501ms total, 31879.25 ops/sec
LRANGE 10, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 1/ 0.32/ 1.00 2501ms total, 153698.52 ops/sec
LRANGE 100, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 0/ 4/ 0.06/ 0.00 2501ms total, 16676.13 ops/sec
LRANGE 100, batch 50/1 min/max/avg/p95: 1/ 6/ 2.03/ 2.00 2502ms total, 24520.38 ops/sec
SET 4MiB str, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 1/ 6/ 2.11/ 3.00 2502ms total, 472.82 ops/sec
SET 4MiB str, batch 20/1 min/max/avg/p95: 85/ 112/ 94.93/ 109.60 2563ms total, 210.69 ops/sec
SET 4MiB buf, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 1/ 8/ 2.02/ 3.00 2502ms total, 490.01 ops/sec
SET 4MiB buf, batch 20/1 min/max/avg/p95: 37/ 52/ 39.48/ 46.75 2528ms total, 506.33 ops/sec
GET 4MiB str, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 3/ 13/ 5.26/ 9.00 2504ms total, 190.10 ops/sec
GET 4MiB str, batch 20/1 min/max/avg/p95: 70/ 106/ 89.36/ 103.75 2503ms total, 223.73 ops/sec
GET 4MiB buf, 1/1 min/max/avg/p95: 3/ 11/ 5.04/ 8.15 2502ms total, 198.24 ops/sec
GET 4MiB buf, batch 20/1 min/max/avg/p95: 70/ 105/ 88.07/ 103.00 2554ms total, 227.09 ops/sec
The hiredis and js parser should most of the time be on the same level. But if you use Redis for big SUNION/SINTER/LRANGE/ZRANGE hiredis is significantly faster.
Therefor the hiredis parser is the default used in node_redis. To use hiredis, do:
npm install hiredis redis
To get debug output run your node_redis application with NODE_DEBUG=redis.
The original author of node_redis is Matthew Ranney
The current lead maintainer is Ruben Bridgewater
Many others contributed to node_redis too. Thanks to all of them!
Right now there are two great redis clients around and both have some advantages above each other. We speak about ioredis and node_redis. So after talking to each other about how we could improve in working together we (that is @luin and @BridgeAR) decided to work towards a single library on the long run. But step by step.
First of all, we want to split small parts of our libraries into others so that we're both able to use the same code. Those libraries are going to be maintained under the NodeRedis organization. This is going to reduce the maintance overhead, allows others to use the very same code, if they need it and it's way easyer for others to contribute to both libraries.
We're very happy about this step towards working together as we both want to give you the best redis experience possible.
If you want to join our cause by help maintaining something, please don't hesitate to contact either one of us.
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