Redis SCAN never misses a stable key but can return the same key more than once
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:35.999Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:35.999Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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SCAN, HSCAN, SSCAN and ZSCAN iterate with a reverse-binary cursor and give a weak guarantee: a key present for the whole iteration is returned at least once, and a key absent for the whole iteration is never returned. Keys added or removed during the scan may or may not appear, and any key can appear multiple times, so the caller must deduplicate.
COUNT is a hint about work per call, not a page size, so a call can return zero elements while the cursor is still non-zero. Iteration ends only when the returned cursor is 0, never because a batch came back empty. MATCH filters after retrieval, so a restrictive pattern still walks the whole keyspace. Use SCAN rather than KEYS on any instance with traffic, because KEYS is O(N) and blocks the single-threaded server for the entire sweep.
Source: https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/scan/
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