inmemdb

inmemdb is a redis API compatible in-memory database heavily inspired by redis.

Usage

inmemdb runs on an HTTP server on the default port 9005. The default port can be changed with an additional command-line argument. Example below

./inmemdb

# ./inmemdb 5000 - runs on port 5000

HTTP Request

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: http://localhost:9005
Content-Type: application/json

{"outputFormat": "json", "command": ["get", "name"]}

Commands Supported

Commands supported are listed below. More to come!

• PING
• GET
• SET
• SETEX
• DEL
• EXPIRE
• TTL
• SADD
• SMEMBERS
• SREM
• LPUSH
• RPUSH
• LLEN
• LPOP
• LRANGE
• EXIT

Client

Currently, there are no clients available for inmemdb. In a short period of time, clients for Nodejs, Go, PHP, and Python will be released.

• Nodejs
• Go
• Python
• PHP

Outputs

Inmemdb can return its response in two formats (JSON and text). Response formats such as XML may be supported later. You can specify the format using the outputFormat argument. The default format is in JSON.

Examples

As already discussed above, the keys supported (See above) are compatible with redis.

Note: The commands are case-insensitive and are specified in an array of strings (See above http request)

Command	Normal Output	JSON Output
PING	OK	{"result":"PONG","status":"success"}
SET name musah	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
GET name	musah	{"result":"musah","status":"success"}
EXPIRE name 100	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
TTL name	55	{"result":55","status":"success"}
DEL name	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
SADD names musah	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
SADD names musah	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
SADD names kusi	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
SADD names hussein	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
SMEMBERS names	1) musah 2) kusi 3) hussein	{"result":["musah","kusi","hussein"],"status":"success"}
RPUSH sentence works	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
LPUSH sentence just	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
LPUSH sentence it	OK	{"result":"OK","status":"success"}
LRANGE sentence 0 -1	1) it 2) just 3) works	{"result":["it","just","works"],"status":"success"}
LPOP sentence	works	{"result":"just","status":"success"}
LRANGE sentence 0 -1	1) it 2) just	{"result":["it","just"],"status":"success"}

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

MIT