Re:Redis 2.2.0 RC1 is out
by superjared on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @02:59PM
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These additions make compact data storage and access much simpler from our perspective. Instead of loading and parsing an entire entry, we have access to just the data we want.
Nice work, Salvatore. Seriously.
For instance GETBIT/SETBIT will turn strings into a large bitmap. While GETRANGE/SETRANGE makes users able to use strings as arrays for fixed length data.
I think there will be big use cases for this new commands, as it is possible to store a lot of data in little space, with O(1) random access.