Redis: A technique for Verifying Propagation of Writes

Interesting idea on how to emulate in Redis MongoDB’s db.runCommand( { getlasterror : 1 , w : 2 } )^[1] to verify propagation of writes:

Have client establish two connections - one to master Redis and one to slave Redis.

Now when client wants to write KEY to both master and slave:

1. Client SUBSCRIBEs to  KEY on slave
2. Client writes KEY (e.g. set foo bar) to master
3. Client publishes KEY to master

Assuming redis-master will serialize the updates:

1. Master will replicate KEY to slave
2. Master will propagate PUBLISH KEY to slave

Finally client:

1. Gets KEY event on SUBSCRIBE!

You can probably replace Pub and Subs with RPUSH and BLPOP respectively.

Couple of comments:

1. using PUB/SUB will require an async client that will need to perform coordination to conclude the propagation was successful
2. using RPUSH and BLPOP would allow a sync client, that can also set up timeouts

Original title and link: Redis: A technique for Verifying Propagation of Writes (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)

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