Redis FIFO queue

[Marius M.]

Hi,

I'm thinking to use redis as a First In First Out queue, using a list and the LPUSH, RPOP commands.

The queue's consumers will be numerous and asynchronous, so my question would be in order to avoid two consumers RPOP-ing the same key, should I be using BRPOP instead?

Thanks!

[Jan-Erik Rediger]

It's impossible for two consumers to pop the same element. Redis is
single-threaded and responds to requests in the order they come in.
Race-conditions like the one you mentioned can't happen.

[Marius M.]

Thanks Jan!

[Josiah Carlson]

If you are using Redis as a queue, you may want to look into the several different queue packages for Redis available in the language you are programming in.

 - Josiah

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