Overview

High-performance Erlang client for the Redis key-value store.

hierdis presents a simple API similar to the synchronous API exposed by the well-known hiredis C client. This is done by exposing hiredis C client functionality to Erlang through the NIF interface.

Using this approach also allows hierdis to communicate with Redis via unix domain sockets, which by itself can provide a 50% increase in throughput over TCP.

Installation

Pre-requisites: You must already have Erlang R15B01 or later installed on your machine.

$ git clone git@github.com:nathanaschbacher/hierdis.git .
$ cd hierdis
$ ./rebar compile

This should automatically build the hiredis dependencies and move the headers and libraries to the priv/ directory.

Performance Comparison

On a MacBook Air equipped with a dual-core 2.0Ghz Core i7 CPU hierdis achieves over 3x the throughput and sees 5x lower latency compared to eredis using 1 byte values. When increasing the size of the stored values to 10 kb the performance of hierdis remained basically constant, and eredis performance cut in half.

hierdis (~40k ops/sec, ~0.06ms Avg. GET and PUT)

eredis (~12.5k ops/sec, ~0.30ms Avg. GET and PUT)

Tests were performed using basho_bench with identical configurations for both hierdis and eredis. Except for utilizing their respective basho_bench drivers. The GET/PUT balance was even, and the concurrency was set to 4 to match the number of logical cores on the CPU.

redis-server was flushed and restarted before each test run, and disk-persistence was disabled for each run as well.

The respective configurations and complete results can be found here hierdis_vs_eredis.zip

Usage

#####Get a Redis connection.

$ erl -pa ebin/

Eshell V5.9.1  (abort with ^G)
1> {ok,C} = hierdis:connect_unix("/tmp/redis.sock").
{ok,<<>>}

#####Issue single commands to Redis as an iolist.

2> hierdis:command(C, ["SET", "foo", "bar"]).
{ok,<<"OK">>}
3> hierdis:command(C, ["GET", "foo"]).
{ok,<<"bar">>}
4> hierdis:command(C, ["MSET" | ["key1", "1", "key2", "2", "key3", "3"]]).               
{ok,<<"OK">>}
5> hierdis:command(C, ["GET", "key1"]).                                                  
{ok,<<"1">>}
6> hierdis:command(C, ["GET", "key3"]).
{ok,<<"3">>}
7> hierdis:command(C, ["MGET" | ["key1", "key2", "key3"]]).  
{ok,[<<"1">>,<<"2">>,<<"3">>]}

#####Pipeline commands to Redis as a list of iolists.

8> hierdis:pipeline(C, [
8>     ["SET", "foo", "bar"],
8>     ["GET", "foo"],
8>     ["MSET" | ["key1", "1", "key2", "2", "key3", "3"]],
8>     ["GET", "key1"],
8>     ["GET", "key3"],
8>     ["MGET" | ["key1", "key2", "key3"]]  
8> ]).
[{ok,<<"OK">>},
 {ok,<<"bar">>},
 {ok,<<"OK">>},
 {ok,<<"1">>},
 {ok,<<"3">>},
 {ok,[<<"1">>,<<"2">>,<<"3">>]}]

#####Execute a transaction pipeline against Redis as a list of iolists.

9> hierdis:transaction(C, [ 
9>     ["SET", "foo", "bar"],
9>     ["GET", "foo"],
9>     ["MSET" | ["key1", "1", "key2", "2", "key3", "3"]],
9>     ["MGET" | ["key1", "key2", "key3"]]  
9> ]).
{ok,[<<"OK">>,<<"bar">>,<<"OK">>,[<<"1">>,<<"2">>,<<"3">>]]}
10> hierdis:transaction(C, [
10>     ["SET", "foo", "bar"],
10>     ["GET", "foo"],
10>     ["CRASHER!" | ["ka", "blooey"]],
10>     ["MGET" | ["key1", "key2", "key3"]]  
10> ]).
{error,{redis_reply_error,"EXECABORT Transaction discarded because of previous errors."}}

#####Manually append commands and get replies.

11> hierdis:append_command(C, ["MULTI"]).
{ok,15}
12> hierdis:append_command(C, ["SET", "foo", "pipelined"]).
{ok,52}
13> hierdis:append_command(C, ["SET", "bar", "linedpipe"]).
{ok,89}
14> hierdis:append_command(C, ["EXEC"]).
{ok,183}
15> hierdis:get_reply(C).
{ok,<<"OK">>}
16> hierdis:get_reply(C).
{ok,<<"QUEUED">>}
17> hierdis:get_reply(C).
{ok,<<"QUEUED">>}
18> hierdis:get_reply(C).
{ok,[<<"OK">>,<<"OK">>,<<"OK">>,
     [<<"pipelined">>,<<"linedpipe">>,<<"ploplooned">>]]}

#Simple. Right?

License

(The MIT License)

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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