Redis how to store associative array? Set or Hash or List?

Question

I\'m a bit confused with all the available storing options of Redis. I want to do something simple and I don\'t want to over engineer it. I\'m working with phpredis

Answer 1

In PHP you can just do

$redis->set($key, json_encode($value));

Then

$value = json_decode($redis->get($key));

Or use whatever serialization technique you prefer. JSON encode/decode was performant enough for me not to care.