I opened an issue in the Redis repository about the 50% memory savings for sorted sets I talked about a few days ago: github.com/redis/redis/issue…
On 2026-06-19 Redis founder Salvatore “@antirez” Sanfilippo opened an issue in…
Brief
Salvatore “@antirez” Sanfilippo opened a GitHub issue on 2026-06-19 in the redis/redis repository reporting an approach that can reduce Redis sorted-set (zset) memory use by about 50%. The issue follows a discussion he started days earlier and points maintainers and users to the redis/redis issues page for details and follow-up.
Why it matters
On 2026-06-19 Redis founder Salvatore “@antirez” Sanfilippo opened an issue in the redis/redis GitHub repository claiming a method that yields roughly 50% memory savings for sorted sets (zsets).
Key details
- The issue links to the redis/redis project on GitHub (github.com/redis/redis/issues) and follows a recent thread where he described the optimization in more detail a few days earlier.