Take a look at Redis sometime. You might want to actually work on it a bit to help internalize what you're reading. Here are a couple of articles that might hel

Take a look at Redis sometime. You might want to actually work on it a bit to help internalize what you're reading. Here are a couple of articles that might help get you started: http://pauladamsmith.com/articles/redis-under-the-hood.html http://pauladamsmith.com/articles/redis-under-the-hood.html http://www.starkiller.net/2013/05/03/hacking-redis-adding-interval-sets/ http://www.starkiller.net/2013/05/03/hacking-redis-adding-in...