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Redis now has compressed bitmaps (Roaring)

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Redis is adding Roaring compressed bitmaps as a new opt-in type, expected in Redis 8.12, enabled with CONFIG SET bitmap-default-roaring yes. Roaring adapts its storage to sparse, dense, and run-heavy data, so sparse or widely spaced bit sets avoid the cost of plain Redis bitmaps, which allocate one byte per…

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