[antirez]

Actually CRC-16 has a much better distribution than djb2 and other algorithms for this use case. CRC-16 is a remarkably good algorithm for certain kind of hashing, and has a few very interesting qualities being the reminder of a polynominal division. For instance if you hash two bytes data you are guaranteed to have different hashes for every different pair of bytes without collisions.

CRC-16 performed very well in tests also with the very common case of keys with the same prefix, like object:0, object:1, and so forth.

So CRC-16 is very good for our use case and has the advantage of being simple and fast.

[pork]

Thank you! Perhaps this warrants a blog post by itself?