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Adding blog post: Valkey 9.1 Cuts Sorted Set Memory - #686
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- Line 14: In the blog post, split sentences onto separate Markdown source lines
at the identified paragraphs, including the paragraph beginning “Last fall I
benchmarked Valkey 8.1.” Preserve the wording and Markdown links; make no other
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- Line 16: Update the benchmark reference in the paragraph beginning “Two
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| Last fall I [benchmarked Valkey 8.1 against 8.0](https://valkey.io/blog/50-million-zsets/) by pushing 50 million members into a sorted set and watching the memory counters. The result was a 22% reduction in memory and a meaningful bump in throughput, from a minor version upgrade. I closed that post by saying the smallest efficiencies compound into massive savings when you run infrastructure at scale. |
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In the blog post, split sentences onto separate Markdown source lines at the
identified paragraphs, including the paragraph beginning “Last fall I
benchmarked Valkey 8.1.” Preserve the wording and Markdown links; make no other
content changes.
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| Last fall I [benchmarked Valkey 8.1 against 8.0](https://valkey.io/blog/50-million-zsets/) by pushing 50 million members into a sorted set and watching the memory counters. The result was a 22% reduction in memory and a meaningful bump in throughput, from a minor version upgrade. I closed that post by saying the smallest efficiencies compound into massive savings when you run infrastructure at scale. | ||
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| Two releases later, I wanted to know whether that was a one-time win or a trend. So I ran the same benchmark again, this time across five versions: 7.2, 8.0, 8.1, 9.0, and the new 9.1. Same tool ([sorted-set-benchmark](https://github.com/momentohq/sorted-set-benchmark)), same workload: 50 million members (`m:{i}`, score `i`) inserted into a single ZSET via pipelined ZADD, ten repetitions per version with a flush in between, official docker images with persistence off, on a Graviton4 r8g.4xlarge. |
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https://www.gomomento.com/blog/50-million-sorted-sets-round-three-redis-and-valkey-compared/ benchmark Valkey exact image tags run configuration ten runs median
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**Exact image tags aren’t specified in the post.** It gives the tested release versions and says “official docker images,” but doesn’t name Docker repositories, tag strings, or digests—so the exact images used remain unverified. ([gomomento.com](https://www.gomomento.com/blog/50-million-sorted-sets-round-three-redis-and-valkey-compared/))
**Reported run configuration:** 50 million members in one ZSET; pipelined `ZADD NX`, members `m:{i}`, integer scores; an AWS Graviton4 `r8g.4xlarge`; ten repetitions per version with a flush between runs; persistence disabled (`--save '' --appendonly no`); one server at a time; and one benchmark client on the same host. The table reports median inserts/sec. ([gomomento.com](https://www.gomomento.com/blog/50-million-sorted-sets-round-three-redis-and-valkey-compared/))
The post names these versions: **Redis** 7.4.11, 8.0.6, 8.2.10, 8.4.7, 8.6.7, 8.10.2; **Valkey** 7.2.14, 8.0.11, 8.1.10, 9.0.6, 9.1.2. ([gomomento.com](https://www.gomomento.com/blog/50-million-sorted-sets-round-three-redis-and-valkey-compared/))
The linked benchmark repository documents the tool and its defaults, but its public README does not establish the Docker tags or the exact commands used for these runs. ([github.com](https://github.com/momentohq/sorted-set-benchmark))
Citations:
- 1: https://www.gomomento.com/blog/50-million-sorted-sets-round-three-redis-and-valkey-compared/
- 2: https://www.gomomento.com/blog/50-million-sorted-sets-round-three-redis-and-valkey-compared/
- 3: https://www.gomomento.com/blog/50-million-sorted-sets-round-three-redis-and-valkey-compared/
- 4: https://github.com/momentohq/sorted-set-benchmark
Link the reproducible benchmark record.
Line 16 links only to the benchmark tool. That repository documents the workload and measurements, but it does not record the five-version matrix, exact image tags, ten-run orchestration, flush sequence, median calculation, or executed results. The post states some of this procedure, but readers cannot check the table against a run record. The separate companion article is not linked and does not replace a pinned record of the exact images used. Link a run record that contains these details, or include them in the post.
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Review comment at @content/blog/2026-10-07-valkey-9-1-cuts-sorted-set-memory.md
at line 16:
Update the benchmark reference in the paragraph beginning “Two releases later”
to link a reproducible run record containing the five-version matrix, exact
image tags, run orchestration, flush sequence, median calculation, and results;
if no such record is available, include those details in the post.
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The content seems fine, but the timing is odd since in 9.2 there are massive changed to the sorted set (see #665). I don't know if this makes sense to publish now, and not sure it makes sense to post independently of the other sorted set blog.
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I think it is ok to beat this drum beat of efficiency, so the redundancy doesn't bug me. 9.2 is a good point. I can just run a test and add numbers expected from 9.2 |
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Or we could wait till 11/16 but I'd rather just do a preview blog now |
Description
Adds a blog post written by Khawaja Shams about how Valkey 9.1 cut sorted set memory another 11% compared to 9.0
Issues Resolved
#685
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