Desigining "trending topics in 24 hours sliding window" with Redis

tophashes-sliding-window-redis.sh

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# Desigining "trending topics in 24 hours sliding window" with Redis
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redis-cli del tophashes:2010-12-07-08-00
redis-cli del tophashes:2010-12-07-09-00
redis-cli del tophashes:current

echo '=== 8:00 AM ==='
echo 'First tweet about "breakfast"'
redis-cli ZINCRBY tophashes:2010-12-07-08-00 1 breakfast
echo 'Second tweet about "breakfast"'
redis-cli ZINCRBY tophashes:2010-12-07-08-00 1 breakfast
echo 'First tweet about "work"'
redis-cli ZINCRBY tophashes:2010-12-07-08-00 1 work 


echo '=== 9:00 AM ==='
echo 'Third tweet about "breakfast"'
redis-cli ZINCRBY tophashes:2010-12-07-09-00 1 breakfast
echo 'Second tweet about "work"'
redis-cli ZINCRBY tophashes:2010-12-07-09-00 1 work
echo 'First tweet about "school"'
redis-cli ZINCRBY tophashes:2010-12-07-09-00 1 school

echo
echo 'Trending between 8:00 and 9:00:'
redis-cli ZREVRANGE tophashes:2010-12-07-08-00 0 -1
# 1. "breakfast"
# 2. "work"

echo
echo 'Trending from 9:00:'
redis-cli ZREVRANGE tophashes:2010-12-07-09-00 0 -1
# 1. "work"
# 2. "school"
# 3. "breakfast"

echo
echo 'Currently stored hours:'
redis-cli KEYS tophashes:2010-12-07*

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# Compute union of the last two hours (running periodically, as a background job, etc)
redis-cli ZUNIONSTORE tophashes:current 2 tophashes:2010-12-07-08-00 tophashes:2010-12-07-09-00
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echo
echo 'Trending topics in the last two hours:'
redis-cli ZREVRANGE tophashes:current 0 -1
# 1. "breakfast"
# 2. "work"
# 3. "school"