I'm pretty sure they aren't ordered. Redis active key expiry is a random process: https://redis.io/commands/expire#how-redis-expires-keys https://redis.io/comma

I'm pretty sure they aren't ordered. Redis active key expiry is a random process: https://redis.io/commands/expire#how-redis-expires-keys https://redis.io/commands/expire#how-redis-expires-keys. TL;DR: Redis will randomly sample the keyspace and delete any expired keys it finds in the sample. If a large enough percentage of the sample was expired, it will repeat the process. Since the sample is random, it cannot be ordered. There is also a "passive" key expiry where any read to a key will check the expiry time and delete the key if the current time is larger than the expiry time.