MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format which lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. With MessagePack we could reduce the memory usage. A short test with a json resource having 1000 lines showed a **25%** memory beneficiation. There's also an [extension](https://github.com/fperrad/lua-MessagePack/) for Lua to include it into Redis. See [http://msgpack.org/](http://msgpack.org/) for more details.