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by theli0nheart 5193 days ago
The problem with this implementation is that you can't have multiple entries for items with the same value. For example, you might be doing metrics for each user in a web application, and want to measure access times. The obvious identifier is IP address for the key, and timestamp for the value, but when you insert a new key/value pair into a ZSET, any previous value for the same item will be replaced.

Therefore, it makes it kind of difficult to use ZSETS for metrics unless you only care about uniques.