Redis Clone

Redis Clone is an educational project to learn and understand the inner workings of Redis, a popular in-memory data structure store. This project is implemented in Go (Golang) and covers various aspects of Redis, including in-memory storage, data persistence, and advanced features like pub/sub and transactions.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• License
• Acknowledgements

Introduction

Redis Clone aims to mimic the basic functionalities of Redis to provide a learning platform for developers interested in understanding distributed systems, data structures, and high-performance computing.

Features

• In-memory key-value store
• Data persistence using RDB and AOF
• Support for lists, sets, and hash maps
• Publish/Subscribe messaging
• Basic transaction support
• Lua scripting execution
• Master-slave replication (planned)
• Sharding (planned)

Installation

To get started with Redis Clone, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/redis-clone.git
   cd redis-clone

2. Install dependencies:

   go mod tidy

3. Build the project:

   go build -o redis-server ./cmd/redis-server

Usage

Run the Redis Clone server:

./redis-server

You can then interact with the server using any Redis client.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Acknowledgements

• Redis for the inspiration and original implementation.
• Golang for the programming language.