Redis Memory Calculator

Describe the keys and get a memory range, with the encoding that decides it named. Every figure is a range, because the exact number depends on allocator behaviour and on data this cannot see.

Paste below, or drop a file anywhere on this panel

Or drop a file anywhere on this panel. Nothing is uploaded: the analysis runs in this tab.

The answer appears here

Paste on the left and press Calculate. Nothing leaves this tab.

Wanted a different tool?

  • Redis Key Count to Memory if all you have is a key count and an average size, because that reports how much of the total is per-key overhead rather than data.
  • Redis Encoding Threshold Calculator if you want the exact threshold where an encoding flips, because that is the cliff this calculator's range is wide because of.

Examples

Real input you can load into the tool above. Each one shows a different thing going wrong, because that is what the tool is for.

A hash under the threshold

Twenty fields per key, which stays in the compact encoding

type: hash
keys: 1000000
fields: 20
field-bytes: 12
value-bytes: 32

Past the threshold

The same keys with 200 fields, which switches to a hashtable

type: hash
keys: 1000000
fields: 200
field-bytes: 12
value-bytes: 32

Common mistakes

These are the ones that fail silently. The config is accepted, nothing raises an error, and the consequence arrives later.

  1. Sizing from the data alone

    Key names, the dict entry, the robj and allocator rounding are frequently more than the values, and none of it appears in a back-of-envelope calculation.

    Instead:Include the per-key overhead. For small values it dominates.

  2. Treating the estimate as a measurement

    Fragmentation, copy-on-write during a save and client buffers all sit outside this model.

    Instead:Load a sample and read used_memory. MEMORY USAGE on a real key is the ground truth.

  3. Ignoring the version

    7.0 replaced ziplist with listpack and 7.2 added listpack for sets. The same data occupies different amounts on different versions.

    Instead:Set the version. It changes the encoding and therefore the answer.

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