woops! @antirez in person :-) amazing job you have done with Redis. Initially we didn't add compression to save bandwidth but to solve the network bandwidth is

woops! @antirez in person :-) amazing job you have done with Redis. Initially we didn't add compression to save bandwidth but to solve the network bandwidth issues between amazon and rackspace. However, it turns out that you can save on the bill quite a lot, in our case about ~ $700. Regarding the binary, would be very nice to have. The first though is that compression would work better for us than binary since our keys are quite long (50/100 bytes) and very regular on their patterns, so compression works very well in our case. Probably can be extrapolated for other cases where the keys are typically heavier than the values.