Chapter 3. Data Structures and Communicating Protocol in Redis

The previous chapter dealt with installation of Redis and running some simple programs. Since Redis is a datastore, so it's important to understand how Redis treats data by providing data structures to handle and store them. Also important is how Redis deals with data while communicating it to a client such as the communication protocol.

Data structures

Data structure, as the word suggests, means a structure for storing data. In the world of computing, data is always organized in a way that makes sense to the program storing it. Data structure can vary from a simple sequential arrangement of characters to a complex map where keys are not arranged sequentially, but on the basis of an ...

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