Programming74 entries

Redis Commands

Strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, pub/sub, streams, and transactions

1Connection & Server

redis-cli
Connect to local Redis instance
redis-cli -h host -p 6379
Connect to remote Redis
redis-cli -a password
Connect with authentication
AUTH password
Authenticate after connecting
PING
Test connection (returns PONG)
SELECT 1
Switch to database 1 (0-15)
INFO
Show server info and statistics
INFO memory
Show memory usage details
DBSIZE
Count keys in current database
FLUSHDB
Delete all keys in current database
FLUSHALL
Delete all keys in all databases

2String Operations

SET key value
Set a string value
GET key
Get a string value
SET key value EX 3600
Set with expiry (seconds)
SET key value NX
Set only if key does not exist
MSET key1 val1 key2 val2
Set multiple keys at once
MGET key1 key2 key3
Get multiple values at once
INCR counter
Increment integer value by 1
INCRBY counter 5
Increment integer by N
DECR counter
Decrement integer value by 1
APPEND key " more"
Append string to existing value
STRLEN key
Get length of string value

3Key Management

KEYS pattern*
Find keys matching pattern (slow)
SCAN 0 MATCH pattern* COUNT 100
Iterate keys safely (production-safe)
EXISTS key
Check if key exists (returns 0/1)
DEL key
Delete a key
UNLINK key
Async delete (non-blocking)
TYPE key
Get the type of a key
RENAME key newkey
Rename a key
EXPIRE key 300
Set TTL in seconds
PEXPIRE key 5000
Set TTL in milliseconds
TTL key
Get remaining TTL in seconds
PERSIST key
Remove expiry from key

4Hash Operations

HSET user:1 name "Alice" age 30
Set hash fields
HGET user:1 name
Get a single hash field
HGETALL user:1
Get all fields and values
HMGET user:1 name age
Get multiple hash fields
HDEL user:1 age
Delete a hash field
HEXISTS user:1 email
Check if hash field exists
HKEYS user:1
List all hash field names
HVALS user:1
List all hash field values
HINCRBY user:1 age 1
Increment hash field value

5List Operations

LPUSH queue item1 item2
Push to head of list
RPUSH queue item1 item2
Push to tail of list
LPOP queue
Pop from head of list
RPOP queue
Pop from tail of list
LRANGE queue 0 -1
Get all items in list
LRANGE queue 0 9
Get first 10 items
LLEN queue
Get list length
LINDEX queue 0
Get item at index
BLPOP queue 30
Blocking pop (wait up to 30s)

6Set & Sorted Set

SADD tags "redis" "database"
Add members to a set
SMEMBERS tags
Get all members of a set
SISMEMBER tags "redis"
Check if member exists in set
SCARD tags
Get set cardinality (count)
SINTER set1 set2
Intersection of two sets
SUNION set1 set2
Union of two sets
ZADD leaderboard 100 "alice"
Add member with score to sorted set
ZRANGE leaderboard 0 9 REV WITHSCORES
Get top 10 with scores
ZRANK leaderboard "alice"
Get rank of member (0-based)
ZSCORE leaderboard "alice"
Get score of member

7Pub/Sub & Streams

SUBSCRIBE channel
Subscribe to a channel
PUBLISH channel "message"
Publish message to channel
PSUBSCRIBE pattern*
Subscribe to channels matching pattern
XADD stream * field value
Add entry to stream
XREAD COUNT 10 STREAMS stream 0
Read from stream
XLEN stream
Get stream length

8Transactions & Scripting

MULTI
Start a transaction
EXEC
Execute all queued commands
DISCARD
Discard queued commands
WATCH key
Watch key for optimistic locking
EVAL "return redis.call('GET', KEYS[1])" 1 mykey
Execute Lua script
BGSAVE
Trigger background save to disk
BGREWRITEAOF
Trigger AOF rewrite