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Jul 11, 2022 · Databases

Redis Internal Data Structures: Ziplist, Skiplist, Intset, Quicklist, Zipmap, and Stream

The article explains Redis’s internal low‑level structures—ziplist, skiplist, intset, quicklist, zipmap, and stream—detailing their memory‑efficient layouts, operations, use cases, and how they combine (e.g., quicklist merging linked lists with ziplists) to deliver high performance in the in‑memory database.