redcon/README.md

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<p align="center">Fast Redis server implementation for Go</a></p>

Redcon is a Redis server implementation for Go that is fast and simple to use. The reason for this library it to give an efficient server front-end for the [BuntDB](https://github.com/tidwall/buntdb) and [Tile38](https://github.com/tidwall/tile38) projects.


Features
--------
- Create a [Fast](#benchmarks) custom Redis compatible server in Go
- Simple interface. One function `ListenAndServe` and one type `Conn`
- Support for pipelining and telnet commands
- Works with Redis clients such as [redigo](https://github.com/garyburd/redigo), [redis-py](https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py), [node_redis](https://github.com/NodeRedis/node_redis), and [jedis](https://github.com/xetorthio/jedis)


Installing
----------

```
go get -u github.com/tidwall/redcon
```

Example
-------
Here's a full example of a Redis clone that accepts:

- SET key value
- GET key
- DEL key
- PING
- QUIT

You can run this example from a terminal:

```sh
go run example/clone.go
```

```go
package main

import (
	"log"
	"strings"
	"sync"

	"github.com/tidwall/redcon"
)

var addr = ":6380"

func main() {
	var mu sync.RWMutex
	var items = make(map[string]string)
	go log.Printf("started server at %s", addr)
	err := redcon.ListenAndServe(addr,
		func(conn redcon.Conn, commands [][]string) {
			for _, args := range commands {
				switch strings.ToLower(args[0]) {
				default:
					conn.WriteError("ERR unknown command '" + args[0] + "'")
				case "ping":
					conn.WriteString("PONG")
				case "quit":
					conn.WriteString("OK")
					conn.Close()
				case "set":
					if len(args) != 3 {
						conn.WriteError("ERR wrong number of arguments for '" + args[0] + "' command")
						continue
					}
					mu.Lock()
					items[args[1]] = args[2]
					mu.Unlock()
					conn.WriteString("OK")
				case "get":
					if len(args) != 2 {
						conn.WriteError("ERR wrong number of arguments for '" + args[0] + "' command")
						continue
					}
					mu.RLock()
					val, ok := items[args[1]]
					mu.RUnlock()
					if !ok {
						conn.WriteNull()
					} else {
						conn.WriteBulk(val)
					}
				case "del":
					if len(args) != 2 {
						conn.WriteError("ERR wrong number of arguments for '" + args[0] + "' command")
						continue
					}
					mu.Lock()
					_, ok := items[args[1]]
					delete(items, args[1])
					mu.Unlock()
					if !ok {
						conn.WriteInt(0)
					} else {
						conn.WriteInt(1)
					}
				}
			}
		},
		func(conn redcon.Conn) bool {
			// use this function to accept or deny the connection.
			// log.Printf("accept: %s", conn.RemoteAddr())
			return true
		},
		func(conn redcon.Conn, err error) {
			// this is called when the connection has been closed
			// log.Printf("closed: %s, err: %v", conn.RemoteAddr(), err)
		},
	)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}
```

Benchmarks
----------

**Redis**: Single-threaded, no disk persistence.

```
$ redis-server --port 6379 --appendonly no
```
```
redis-benchmark -p 6379 -t set,get -n 10000000 -q -P 512 -c 512
SET: 941265.12 requests per second
GET: 1189909.50 requests per second
```

**Redcon**: Single-threaded, no disk persistence.

```
$ GOMAXPROCS=1 go run example/clone.go
```
```
redis-benchmark -p 6380 -t set,get -n 10000000 -q -P 512 -c 512
SET: 1320655.00 requests per second
GET: 1552354.25 requests per second
```

**Redcon**: Multi-threaded, no disk persistence.

```
$ GOMAXPROCS=0 go run example/clone.go
```
```
$ redis-benchmark -p 6380 -t set,get -n 10000000 -q -P 512 -c 512
SET: 2740477.00 requests per second
GET: 3210272.75 requests per second
```

*Running on a MacBook Pro 15" 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 using Go 1.7*

Contact
-------
Josh Baker [@tidwall](http://twitter.com/tidwall)

License
-------
Redcon source code is available under the MIT [License](/LICENSE).