Hello Redis (command-line interface examples)
Redis comes with several executables. In this section, we are going to focus on redis-server and redis-cli.
redis-server is the actual Redis data store. It can be started in standalone mode or in cluster mode. For now, we are only going to use the single-instance mode and later (in Chapter 9, Redis Cluster and Redis Sentinel (Collective Intelligence)) we will cover cluster mode.
redis-cli is a command-line interface that can perform any Redis command (it is a Redis client). It makes learning to execute commands in Redis more intuitive.
This chapter is also going to introduce a Node.js client, and later (in Chapter 5, Clients for Your Favorite Language (Become a Redis Polyglot)) we will see how to use ...
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