Redis Data Types Cheat Sheet

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High-value Redis commands for lists, sets, hashes, and sorted sets used in queues, objects, tags, and leaderboards.

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Lists

Queues, stacks, blocking pops, and range access.

Push to head of list

Insert one or more elements at the head.

bashANYredislistqueue

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bash

LPUSH jobs pending-1 pending-2

Push to tail of list

Insert one or more elements at the tail.

bashANYredislistqueue

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bash

RPUSH jobs pending-1 pending-2

Pop from head

Remove and return the first element.

bashANYredislistpop

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bash

LPOP jobs

Pop from tail

Remove and return the last element.

bashANYredislistpop

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bash

RPOP jobs

Blocking pop from one or more lists

Wait up to 30 seconds for a new element.

bashANYredislistblocking

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bash

BLPOP jobs urgent:jobs 30

Blocking pop from tail

Block until an element is available at the tail.

bashANYredislistblocking

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bash

BRPOP jobs 30

List length

Return the number of elements in a list.

bashANYredislistlength

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LLEN jobs

Read a slice of a list

Get a range of list elements.

bashANYredislistread

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LRANGE jobs 0 9

Read one element by index

Return a list element by zero-based index.

bashANYredislistread

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LINDEX jobs 0

Overwrite a list element

Replace an element at a specific index.

bashANYredislistupdate

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bash

LSET jobs 0 urgent-1

Trim a list to a window

Keep only a selected range of elements.

bashANYredislisttrim

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bash

LTRIM jobs 0 99

Remove matching elements

Remove occurrences of a value.

bashANYredislistdelete

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LREM jobs 0 duplicate-job

Move from one list to another

Atomically move an item between lists.

bashANYredislistworkflow

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bash

RPOPLPUSH source processing

Move between lists with direction control

Generalized replacement for RPOPLPUSH.

bashANYredislistworkflow

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bash

LMOVE source destination RIGHT LEFT

Blocking LMOVE

Block until an element can be moved between lists.

bashANYredislistblocking

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bash

BLMOVE source destination RIGHT LEFT 30

Find index of a list element

Find the first index of a matching element.

bashANYredislistsearch

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bash

LPOS jobs urgent-1

Sets

Membership, uniqueness, intersections, and set algebra.

Add members to a set

Insert unique set members.

bashANYredissetsadd

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bash

SADD tags:post:1 redis cache database

Remove members from a set

Remove members from a set.

bashANYredissetdelete

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SREM tags:post:1 cache

List all members

Return every member of a set.

bashANYredissetread

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bash

SMEMBERS tags:post:1

Get set size

Return the number of unique members.

bashANYredissetcount

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bash

SCARD tags:post:1

Check membership

Return whether a member exists in the set.

bashANYredissetmembership

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bash

SISMEMBER tags:post:1 redis

Check multiple memberships

Test several possible members at once.

bashANYredissetmembership

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bash

SMISMEMBER tags:post:1 redis cache nosql

Pop random members

Remove and return random set members.

bashANYredissetrandom

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bash

SPOP queue:set 2

Read random members

Return random members without removing them.

bashANYredissetrandom

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bash

SRANDMEMBER queue:set 3

Move member between sets

Move a member atomically.

bashANYredissetworkflow

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bash

SMOVE online-users offline-users user:1

Union sets

Return members from either set.

bashANYredissetunion

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bash

SUNION set:a set:b

Intersect sets

Return members common to all sets.

bashANYredissetintersection

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bash

SINTER set:a set:b

Difference of sets

Return members in the first set but not others.

bashANYredissetdifference

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SDIFF set:a set:b

Store union result

Write the union into a destination set.

bashANYredissetunion

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SUNIONSTORE result:set set:a set:b

Store intersection result

Write the intersection into a destination set.

bashANYredissetintersection

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SINTERSTORE result:set set:a set:b

Store difference result

Write the difference into a destination set.

bashANYredissetdifference

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bash

SDIFFSTORE result:set set:a set:b

Incrementally scan a set

Cursor-based iteration over large sets.

bashANYredissetscan

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bash

SSCAN tags:post:1 0 MATCH re* COUNT 100

Hashes

Field/value structures for objects and sparse records.

Set one or more hash fields

Create or update hash fields.

bashANYredishashobject

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bash

HSET user:1 name Alice email alice@example.com

Get one hash field

Read one field from a hash.

bashANYredishashread

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bash

HGET user:1 name

Get multiple fields

Read several fields in one call.

bashANYredishashread

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bash

HMGET user:1 name email

Get all fields and values

Read the full hash.

bashANYredishashread

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bash

HGETALL user:1

List field names

Return all field names in a hash.

bashANYredishashread

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bash

HKEYS user:1

List field values

Return all values in a hash.

bashANYredishashread

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bash

HVALS user:1

Count fields

Return how many fields exist.

bashANYredishashcount

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bash

HLEN user:1

Check whether a field exists

Return 1 if the field exists.

bashANYredishashexists

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bash

HEXISTS user:1 email

Delete fields

Delete one or more fields.

bashANYredishashdelete

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bash

HDEL user:1 email phone

Increment integer field

Atomically increment a numeric field.

bashANYredishashcounter

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bash

HINCRBY counters:api hits 1

Increment float field

Atomically increment a float field.

bashANYredishashcounter

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bash

HINCRBYFLOAT account:1 balance 9.99

Set a field only if absent

Write a field only if it does not exist.

bashANYredishashconditional

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bash

HSETNX user:1 created_at 2026-03-06

Get random fields

Sample random fields from a hash.

bashANYredishashrandom

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bash

HRANDFIELD user:1 2 WITHVALUES

Incrementally scan a hash

Cursor-based iteration over hash fields.

bashANYredishashscan

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bash

HSCAN user:1 0 MATCH meta:* COUNT 100

Get field value length

Return the string length of a field value.

bashANYredishashinspect

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bash

HSTRLEN user:1 name

Sorted sets

Ranked data, leaderboards, and range queries by score or rank.

Add scored members

Insert or update sorted-set scores.

bashANYrediszsetleaderboard

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bash

ZADD leaderboard 100 alice 95 bob

Get a member score

Read a member's numeric score.

bashANYrediszsetscore

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bash

ZSCORE leaderboard alice

Increment member score

Add to a member's score.

bashANYrediszsetscore

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bash

ZINCRBY leaderboard 10 alice

Read by rank

Get members by ascending rank.

bashANYrediszsetrange

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bash

ZRANGE leaderboard 0 9 WITHSCORES

Read highest-ranked members

Get members by descending rank.

bashANYrediszsetleaderboard

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bash

ZREVRANGE leaderboard 0 9 WITHSCORES

Read by score interval

Get members in a score range.

bashANYrediszsetrange

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bash

ZRANGEBYSCORE leaderboard 90 100 WITHSCORES

Read by score descending

Get members by descending score interval.

bashANYrediszsetrange

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bash

ZREVRANGEBYSCORE leaderboard +inf 90 WITHSCORES

Find ascending rank

Return zero-based ascending rank.

bashANYrediszsetrank

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bash

ZRANK leaderboard alice

Find descending rank

Return zero-based descending rank.

bashANYrediszsetrank

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bash

ZREVRANK leaderboard alice

Remove members

Delete members from a sorted set.

bashANYrediszsetdelete

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bash

ZREM leaderboard bob

Trim by rank

Remove all but top 100 members.

bashANYrediszsettrim

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bash

ZREMRANGEBYRANK leaderboard 0 -101

Trim by score

Remove low-scoring members.

bashANYrediszsettrim

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bash

ZREMRANGEBYSCORE leaderboard -inf 49

Count members in score range

Count how many members fall within a score range.

bashANYrediszsetcount

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bash

ZCOUNT leaderboard 80 100

Count all members

Return sorted-set cardinality.

bashANYrediszsetcount

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bash

ZCARD leaderboard

Store union of sorted sets

Combine multiple sorted sets into a destination key.

bashANYrediszsetunion

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bash

ZUNIONSTORE combined 2 board:daily board:weekly

Store intersection of sorted sets

Intersect sorted sets into a destination key.

bashANYrediszsetintersection

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bash

ZINTERSTORE common 2 board:a board:b

Incrementally scan a sorted set

Cursor-based scan over zset members and scores.

bashANYrediszsetscan

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bash

ZSCAN leaderboard 0 MATCH a* COUNT 100

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