Redis内存footprint

原文地址：http://redis.io/topics/faq

What's the Redis memory footprint?

To give you a few examples (all obtained using 64-bit instances):

• An empty instance uses ~ 1MB of memory.
• 1 Million small Keys -> String Value pairs use ~ 100MB of memory.
• 1 Million Keys -> Hash value, representing an object with 5 fields, use ~ 200 MB of memory.

To test your use case is trivial using the redis-benchmark utility to generate random data sets and check with the INFO memory command the space used.

64-bit systems will use considerably more memory than 32-bit systems to store the same keys, especially if the keys and values are small. This is because pointers take 8 bytes in 64-bit systems. But of course the advantage is that you can have a lot of memory in 64-bit systems, so in order to run large Redis servers a 64-bit system is more or less required. The alternative is sharding.