案例：用Redis来存储关注关系

Redis提供了丰富的数据类型，比起关系型数据库或者简单的Key-Value存储（比如Memcached）来，Redis的数据模型与实际应用的数据模型更相近。比如下面说到的好友关系的存储，原作者使用了Redis的 Sets（集合）数据结构。

具体存储方式如下：对于每一个用户，其关注关系存储两份列表，一份为此用户关注的人的UID列表，另一份为此用户粉丝的UID列表，这两个列表都使用Sets（集合）。比如对于用户ID为123的用户，graph:user:123:following 保存的是其关注人的列表，graph:user:1:followed_by 保存的是关注他的人的列表。

下面是一个PHP代码的关注关系类，包括了常规的关注关系操作查询等方法，具体可看注释：

<?

/*
 * This example would probably work best if you're using
 * an MVC framework, but it can be used standalone as well.
 *
 * This example also assumes you are using Predis, the excellent
 * PHP Redis library available here:
 * https://github.com/nrk/predis
 */
class UserNode {
	// The user's ID, probably loaded from MySQL
	private $id;

	// The redis server configuration
	private $redis_config = array(
		array('host' => 'localhost', 'port' => 6379 )
	);

	// Stores the redis connection resource so that
	// we only need to connect to Redis once
	private $redis;

	public function __construct($userID) {
		$this->id = $userID;
	}

	private function redis() {
		if (!$this->redis) {
			$this->redis = new Predis\Client($redis_config);
		}

		return $this->redis;
	}

	/*
	 * Makes this user follow the user with the given ID.
	 * In order to stay efficient, we need to make a two-way
	 * directed graph. This means when we follow a user, we also
	 * say that that user is followed by this user, making a forward
	 * and backword directed graph.
	 */
	public function follow($user) {
		$this->redis()->sadd("graph:user:{$this->id}:following", $user);
		$this->redis()->sadd("graph:user:$user:followed_by", $this->id);
	}

	/*
	 * Makes this user unfollow the user with the given ID.
	 * First we check to make sure that we are actually following
	 * the user we want to unfollow, then we remove both the forward
	 * and backward references.
	 */
	public function unfollow($user) {
		if ($this->is_following()) {
			$this->redis()->srem("graph:user:{$this->id}:following", $user);
			$this->redis()->srem("graph:user:$user:followed_by", $this->id);
		}
	}

	/*
	 * Returns an array of user ID's that this user follows.
	 */
	public function following() {
		return $this->redis()->smembers("graph:user:{$this->id}:following");
	}

	/*
	 * Returns an array of user ID's that this user is followed by.
	 */
	 public function followed_by() {
	 	return $this->redis()->smembers("graph:user:{$this->id}:followed_by");
	 }

	/*
	 * Test to see if this user is following the given user or not.
	 * Returns a boolean.
	 */
	public function is_following($user) {
		return $this->redis()->sismember("graph:user:{$this->id}:following", $user);
	}

	/*
	 * Test to see if this user is followed by the given user.
	 * Returns a boolean.
	 */
	public function is_followed_by($user) {
		return $this->redis()->sismember("graph:user:{$this->id}:followed_by", $user);
	}

	/*
	 * Tests to see if the relationship between this user and the given user is mutual.
	 */
	public function is_mutual($user) {
		return ($this->is_following($user) && $this->is_followed_by($user));
	}

	/*
	 * Returns the number of users that this user is following.
	 */
	public function follow_count() {
		return $this->redis()->scard("graph:user:{$this->id}:following");
	}

	/*
	 * Retuns the number of users that follow this user.
	 */
	public function follower_count() {
		return $this->redis()->scard("graph:user:{$this->id}:followed_by");
	}

	/*
	 * Finds all users that the given users follow in common.
	 * Returns an array of user IDs
	 */
	public function common_following($users) {
		$redis = $this->redis();
		$users[] = $this->id;

		$keys = array();
		foreach ($users as $user) {
			$keys[] = "graph:user:{$user}:following";
		}

		return call_user_func_array(array($redis, "sinter"), $keys);
	}

	/*
	 * Finds all users that all of the given users are followed by in common.
	 * Returns an array of user IDs
	 */
	public function common_followed_by($users) {
		$redis = $this->redis();
		$users[] = $this->id;

		$keys = array();
		foreach ($users as $user) {
			$keys[] = "graph:user:{$user}:followed_by";
		}

		return call_user_func_array(array($redis, "sinter"), $keys);
	}

}

下面是使用这个类来操作关注关系的例子：

<?
// create two user nodes, assume for this example
// they're users with no social graph entries.
$user1 = UserNode(1);
$user2 = UserNode(2);

$user1->follows(); // array()

// add some followers
$user1->follow(2);
$user1->follow(3);

// now check the follow list
$user1->follows(); // array(2, 3)

// now we can also do:
$user2->followed_by(); // array(1)

// if we do this...
$user2->follow(3);

// then we can do this to see which people users #1 and #2 follow in common
$user1->common_following(2); // array(3)

来源：blog.meltingice.net

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