Redis TODO and Roadmap
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-VERSION 2.0 TODO
+VERSION 2.2 TODO (Optimizations and latency)
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+
+* Support for syslog(3).
+* Implement an UDP interface for low-latency operations.
+* Use the same pointer of db->dict in db->expire hash table for keys.
+ 1) Set the keyptr hash table type key destructor to NULL.
+ 2) Don't copy the key in setExpire(), but instead lookup the same key
+ in the dict hash table, and use it.
+ 3) Make sure (and add comments about this) that when a key is deleted or
+ an expire is touched, the order is: delete the expire, delete the key.
+ 4) Make sure the SETEX command works well in all the cases. Add tests.
+
+VERSION 2.x TODO
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* BRPOPLPUSH
-* List ops like L/RPUSH L/RPOP should return the new list length.
* Save dataset / fsync() on SIGTERM
-* MULTI/EXEC should support the "EXEC FSYNC" form?
-* BLPOP & C. tests (write a non blocking Tcl client as first step)
-* Once ZRANK is implemented, change the implementation of ZCOUNT to use the augmented skiplist in order to be much faster.
-* Write doc for ZCOUNT, and for open / closed intervals of sorted sets range operations.
+* Change the implementation of ZCOUNT to use the augmented skiplist in order to be much faster.
-Virtual Memory sub-TODO:
-* Check if the page selection algorithm is working well
-* Divide swappability of objects by refcount
+Virtual Memory optimizations:
* Use multiple open FDs against the VM file, one for thread.
-* it should be possible to give the vm-max-memory option in megabyte, gigabyte, ..., just using 2GB, 100MB, and so forth.
-* Try to understand what can be moved into I/O threads that currently is instead handled by the main thread. For instance swapping file table scannig to find contiguous page could be a potential candidate (but I'm not convinced it's a good idea, better to improve the algorithm, for instance double the fast forward at every step?).
-* Possibly decrRefCount() against swapped objects can be moved into I/O threads, as it's a slow operation against million elements list, and in general consumes CPU time that can be consumed by other threads (and cores).
-* EXISTS should avoid loading the object if possible without too make the code too specialized.
-* vm-min-age <seconds> option
-* Make sure objects loaded from the VM are specially encoded when possible.
-* Check what happens performance-wise if instead to create threads again and again the same threads are reused forever. Note: this requires a way to disable this clients in the child, but waiting for empty new jobs queue can be enough.
-* Sets of integers are slow to load, for a number of reasons. Fix it. (use slow_sets.rdb file for debugging). (p.s. this was now partially fixed).
-* On EXEC try to block the client until relevant keys are loaded.
-
-* Hashes (GET/SET/DEL/INCRBY/EXISTS/FIELDS/LEN/MSET/MGET). Special encoding for hashes with less than N elements.
-* Write documentation for APPEND
+* Check what happens performance-wise if instead of creating threads again and again the same threads are reused forever. Note: this requires a way to disable this clients in the child, but waiting for empty new jobs queue can be enough.
* Implement LEN, PEEK, POKE, SETBIT, GETBIT
-VERSION 2.2 TODO (Fault tolerant sharding)
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-
-* Redis-cluster, a fast intermediate layer (proxy) that implements consistent hashing and fault tollerant nodes handling.
-
-Interesting readings about this:
-
- - http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/04/06/designing-rhino-dht-a-fault-tolerant-dynamically-distributed-hash.aspx
-
-VERSION 2.4 TODO (Optimizations and latency)
-============================================
-
-* Lower the CPU usage.
-* Lower the RAM usage everywhere possible.
-* Use epool and alike to rewrite ae.c for Linux and other platforms suppporting fater-than-select() mutiplexing APIs.
-* Implement an UDP interface for low-latency GET/SET operations.
-
OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS THAT WILL BE ADDED BUT I'M NOT SURE WHEN
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* Don't save empty lists / sets / zsets on disk with snapshotting.
* Remove keys when a list / set / zset reaches length of 0.
* An option to exec a command slave-side if the master connection is lost: even cooler: if the script returns "0" the slave elects itself as master, otherwise continue trying to reconnect.
+* PING the master from time to time to check if it's gone.
THE "MAYBE" TODO LIST: things that may or may not get implemented
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* Pattern-matching replication.
* Add an option to relax the delete-expiring-keys-on-write semantic *denying* replication and AOF when this is on? Can be handy sometimes, when using Redis for non persistent state, but can create problems. For instance should rename and move also "move" the timeouts? How does this affect other commands?
* Multiple BY in SORT.
+
+KNOWN BUGS
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+
+* LRANGE and other commands are using 32 bit integers for ranges, and overflows are not detected. So LRANGE mylist 0 23498204823094823904823904 will have random effects.
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