Redis Internals: Data Structures, Skip Lists, Dictionaries, Streams, and Thread Model
The article details Redis’s internal architecture, explaining how strings use SDS structures, sorted sets rely on skip‑lists, integers are stored in compact intsets, hash tables employ incremental rehashing, ziplist and listpack provide memory‑efficient encodings, the RAX radix tree underpins key lookup and streams, and the threading model has evolved from a single‑threaded event loop to multithreaded I/O for improved concurrency.
