Redis Timeseries

Redis is an amazing tool to cache data. It supports different data types to help us cache different kinds of data.

Following are the the data types supported as of Redis 7.0

1. Strings
2. Hashes
3. Lists
4. Sets
5. Sorted Sets
6. Timeseries

In this article, we shall focus mainly on caching timeseries data in redis.

We can cache timeseries data in the following ways:

1. Using the Redis-Timeseries extention

• Save data using ADD KEY Timestamp Record
  where, Key is the name of the timeseries.
  Timestamp is the field used for sorting the elements.
  Record is the field representing the value at the given timestamp.

• Fetch records using range command. RANGE KEY FROM_TS TO_TS where from_ts and to_ts represent the upper bound and lower bound of the timestamp in the search space.

NOTE: the record field is of type decimal. It supports only numbers.

• Therefore, it is very helpful for saving single value records and not lists or maps.

• Example: stock values, moisture in soil etc.

• However it is not possible to save lists or tuples.

• In that case, we can make use of Sorted Sets.

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2. Sorted Sets

• ZADD KEY Timestamp RECORD.

• Here, zadd is used to save data in sorted sets. Key is the series name. Timestamp is the field used for sorting. Record can be of type string. Hence we can save json strings in the record field.

• To fetch data from sorted sets, use command ZRANGE FROM_TS TO_TS BYSCORE=TRUE.

• Use by_score to get data based on timestamp and not index.

Docker Image For Redis Timeseries

docker pull redislabs/redistimeseries

Link: https://hub.docker.com/r/redislabs/redistimeseries

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Aniketh Deshpande