
Otherwise we suggest to implement the solution described in this document. If this is the case, you can use your replication based solution. Sometimes it is perfectly fine that, under special circumstances, for example during a failure, multiple clients can hold the lock at the same time. Client B acquires the lock to the same resource A already holds a lock for.The master crashes before the write to the key is transmitted to the replica.Client A acquires the lock in the master.There is a race condition with this model: By doing so we can’t implement our safety property of mutual exclusion, because Redis replication is asynchronous. Well, let’s add a replica! And use it if the master is unavailable. What happens if the Redis master goes down? Superficially this works well, but there is a problem: this is a single point of failure in our architecture. When the client needs to release the resource, it deletes the key. The key is usually created with a limited time to live, using the Redis expires feature, so that eventually it will get released (property 2 in our list). The simplest way to use Redis to lock a resource is to create a key in an instance. To understand what we want to improve, let’s analyze the current state of affairs with most Redis-based distributed lock libraries. Why Failover-based Implementations Are Not Enough As long as the majority of Redis nodes are up, clients are able to acquire and release locks. Eventually it is always possible to acquire a lock, even if the client that locked a resource crashes or gets partitioned. At any given moment, only one client can hold a lock. We are going to model our design with just three properties that, from our point of view, are the minimum guarantees needed to use distributed locks in an effective way. NET implementation with configurable datastore). Includes async and lock extension support. rtckit/react-redlock (Async PHP implementation).

cheprasov/php-redis-lock (PHP library for locks).PHPRedisMutex (further PHP implementation).Aioredlock (Asyncio Python implementation).There is also a fork of Redlock-rb that adds a gem for easy distribution.


Implementationsīefore describing the algorithm, here are a few links to implementationsĪlready available that can be used for reference. We hope that the community will analyze it, provideįeedback, and use it as a starting point for the implementations or moreĬomplex or alternative designs. Which implements a DLM which we believe to be safer than the vanilla single This page describes a more canonical algorithm to implementĭistributed locks with Redis. What can be achieved with slightly more complex designs.
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There are a number of libraries and blog posts describing how to implementĪ DLM (Distributed Lock Manager) with Redis, but every library uses a differentĪpproach, and many use a simple approach with lower guarantees compared to Distributed locks are a very useful primitive in many environments whereĭifferent processes must operate with shared resources in a mutually
