Question

I am storing user information from nodejs app in the form of

SET user_<userid> {id:"asdad", .....}

I have sets of users organized by updates and such. Sometimes I need to retrieve large amount for users and send them to a client (lets say 100 users)

Currently I use MGET key1, key2, .... then once I get them back I parse the json and return the result.

Would it better for me to store the users in hashes? To retrieve multiple users I could use multi together with HMGET so I would use 100 HMGETs and then get back the user data.

Big advantage I see for the HMGET is that if I need only some of my user fields I can retrieve partial objects instead of full objects.

Answer 1

Would it better for me to store the users in hashes?

Storing users in hashes gives you better flexibility in terms of retrieving only specific fields as you mentioned and also no need to parse strings to objects. I asked similar question before.