Chapter 9. Reducing memory use
This chapter covers
- Short structures
- Sharded structures
- Packing bits and bytes
In this chapter, we’ll cover three important methods to help reduce your memory use in Redis. By reducing the amount of memory you use in Redis, you can reduce the time it takes to create or load a snapshot, rewrite or load an append-only file, reduce slave synchronization time,[1] and store more data in Redis without additional hardware.
1 Snapshots, append-only file rewriting, and slave synchronization are all discussed in chapter 4.
We’ll begin this chapter by discussing how the use of short data structures in Redis can result in a more efficient representation of the data. We’ll then discuss how to apply a concept called ...
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