Release.md

A Lite redis-server implementation in golang

Prerequisites

• redis-cli (for testing the implementation)

  Installation guide - https://redis.io/docs/install/install-redis/

Try out

# Using brew (for mac or linux)
brew install omkarph/tap/redis-server-lite
redis-server-lite

# or

# Using a release archive from https://github.com/OmkarPh/redis-server-lite/releases/latest
cd ~/Downloads # Go to the Downloads folder of your machine
mkdir redis-server-lite
tar -xf "release_archive_file" -C redis-server-lite
cd redis-server-lite
./redis-server-lite

# Test
redis-cli set message Hello World
redis-cli get message

Features

• Follows RESP protocol (Works with redis-cli & redis-benchmark)

• Key expiration (Active & Passive)

• Simple & Sharded key-value stores

  Can be customised in redis.conf file as:

  kv_store sharded
  shardfactor 32
  
  or
  
  kv_store simple
  

Supported commands

Detailed documentation - https://redis.io/commands/

Command	Syntax	Example	Description
SET	SET	redis-cli SET name omkar	Set the string value of a key
GET	GET	redis-cli GET name	Get the value of a key
DEL	DEL key [key ...]	redis-cli DEL name redis-cli DEL name age	Delete one or more keys
INCR	INCR key	redis-cli INCR age	Increment the integer value of a key
DECR	DECR key	redis-cli DECR age	Decrement the integer value of a key
EXISTS	EXISTS key [key ...]	redis-cli EXISTS name redis-cli EXISTS name age	Check if a key exists
EXPIRE	EXPIRE key seconds [NX / XX / GT / LT]	redis-cli EXPIRE name 20 redis-cli EXPIRE name 20 NX	Set a key's time to live in seconds
PERSIST	PERSIST key	redis-cli PERSIST name	Remove the expiration from a key
TTL	TTL key	redis-cli TTL key	Get the time to live for a key (in seconds)
TYPE	TYPE key	redis-cli TYPE name	Determine the type stored at a key
PING	PING	redis-cli PING	Ping the server
ECHO	ECHO	redis-cli ECHO "Hello world"	Echo the given string

Benchmarks

redis-benchmark -t SET,GET,INCR -q

redis-server-lite

Original redis-server