Retrieving/Listing all key/value pairs in a Redis db

Question

I'm using an ORM called Ohm in Ruby that works on top of Redis and am curious to find out how the data is actually stored. I was wondering if there is way to list all the keys/values in a Redis db.

Any lead will go a long way in helping me out (I'm basically stuck atm). Thanks in advance!

Update:
A note for others trying this out using redis-cli, use this:

$ redis-cli keys * (press * followed by Ctrl-D) ... (prints a list of keys and exits) $ 

Thanks @antirez and @hellvinz!

Answer 1

You can explore the Redis dataset using the redis-cli tool included in the Redis distribution.

Just start the tool without arguments, then type commands to explore the dataset.

For instance KEYS will list all the keys matching a glob-style pattern, for instance with: keys * you'll see all the keys available.

Then you can use the TYPE command to check what type is a given key, if it's a list you can retrieve the elements inside using LRANGE mykey 0 -1. If it is a Set you'll use instead SMEMBERS mykey and so forth. Check the Redis documentation for a list of all the available commands and how they work.

Answer 2

From the command line, you can also use the dump command, available since Redis 2.6.0

redis-cli KEYS \* | xargs -n 1 redis-cli dump 

(note that this also works with the get command for earlier versions if you don't mind)

UPDATE (V2.8 or greater): SCAN is a superior alternative to KEYS, in the sense that it does not block the server nor does it consume significant resources. Prefer using it.