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Compact serialized encoding used by Redis-family datastores to hold small hashes, lists and sorted sets in a single allocation.

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One field TTL forces a small Valkey hash into hashtable encoding

Valkey 9.1's HSETEX reads like a one-command replacement for SET with EX, but a dev.to test across 20,000 items measured three times the memory, and the cause is an encoding conversion that fires on the first expiry.

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Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives30
Confidence58