Compression Story
Author: hpatroCreated Aug 14, 2026Updated Sep 16, 2026
Uber issue for compression work done across Valkey infrastructure:
- On-disk RDB compression via LZ4 - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/pull/3531
- Full sync: #4075
- Replication stream: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/pull/3853
- #4656
- Inline In-memory compression (multiple data structures) - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/3423
- ZSTD support for compression - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/pull/3798
- LZ4 compression support for quicklists - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/3526
- LZ4 as default compression for RDB - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/4372
- Client connection compression - #1494
Source: valkey-io/valkey