Track daily user activity with Redis bitmaps (SETBIT/GETBIT)
domain: redis.io · 6 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps
Map each day to a bit offset (day 0 = launch, day 1 = next, ...).
SETBIT user:7 365 1 marks user 7 active on day 365; the reply is the PREVIOUS bit value at that offset.
Check membership with GETBIT key offset (0 or 1).
Count active days with BITCOUNT key [start end [BYTE|BIT]] — returns the number of set bits, optionally within a range.
Ranges accept negative indexes (-1 = last byte) and, since Redis 7.0, a BIT unit for bit offsets.
10 years of daily tracking is only ~456 bytes per user, so BITCOUNT stays effectively O(1)-fast.
Known gotchas
Bitmaps are just bit operations on Redis Strings, not a separate type — you can also GET/SET the raw string.
Offsets must be in [0, 2^32); the backing string zero-pads on demand and is bounded at 512MB.
Setting the very last possible offset (2^32-1) on a new/small key forces allocating all intermediate memory and CAN BLOCK the server — avoid unless the key is already large.
BITCOUNT of a nonexistent key returns 0 (treated as an empty string).
For setting many bits at once, prefer a variadic BITFIELD SET u1 ... call over many SETBIT calls.
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