Object Encoding

Architecture Digest

Mar 27, 2020 · Databases

Understanding Redis Memory Model: Objects, Allocation, and Internal Encoding

This article explains Redis's memory model by describing how to query memory usage, the roles of used_memory, used_memory_rss, mem_fragmentation_ratio, and mem_allocator, and then dives into the internal structures such as redisObject, SDS, jemalloc, and the encoding strategies for strings, lists, hashes, sets, and sorted sets.