Trying Out Redis via NuGet

From the Redis home page:

Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

Redis is also fast. Incredibly fast. Mind-numbing fast.

For more information, try the Redis docs or “The Little Redis Book” by Karl  Seguin.

MSOpenTech just released a NuGet package of their Windows port to make it easy to download Redis and try the server from the command line. Combine this package with the ServiceStack.Redis package and it easy to be up and running quickly.

install-package redis-64
install-package servicestack.redis

The redis-64 package (for 64 bit systems) doesn’t add assembly references to a project, but does drop the Redis server executable in the packages\Redis-64.{version}\tools directory of the solution. Opening a command window and running redis-server.exe will launch the server with the default settings.

Here is a quick C# program to store and retrieve an object using the ServiceStack client:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var client = new RedisClient("localhost");
    var patientClient = client.As<Patient>();

    var patient = new Patient
        {
            Name = "Scott", 
            Codes = new List<string> {"1.1", "2.2"}
        };
    patient.Id = patientClient.GetNextSequence();
    patientClient.Store(patient);

    var retrievedPatient = patientClient.GetById(patient.Id);
    Console.WriteLine("{0}:{1}", retrievedPatient.Id, retrievedPatient.Name);

}

Once the program runs, you can also go to the command line client in the tools directory (redis-cli.exe), and verify the data stored inside of Redis. Here is a shot of the cli client and server running: