#1 you rock for Redis. hail/praise/kudos (seriously!) #2 I and a lot of other programmers tend to think of a string (for me, going back decades) as "a byte seq

#1 you rock for Redis. hail/praise/kudos (seriously!) #2 I and a lot of other programmers tend to think of a string (for me, going back decades) as "a byte sequence which just happens to represent text, in some encoding". It's not merely a byte array. A byte array could be say an encoded image (PNG, GIF, etc.) or some other serialized object. That said, this distinction/confusion in terminology is not important. It pales in comparison to how awesome Redis is. :)