Redis sort by score and date - sql

Question

I'm trying to strategies how to calculate position/rank based on score and date
I have a two pieces of data with the same score shown in the image below.
If i run the command
$ZADD usersScores 11 userId6
It will add it above userId5 which is not something I want
Is it possible to add it below userId1 maybe based on date?
This is my goal essentially where i would like to show the position based on the amount and the oldest would be ontop via date
Thanks!

Answer 1

Sorted Set ordering
Sorted sets are ordered by their scores first, and then lexigraphically by their members if the scores are equivalent. So in your case if you added the following keys:
127.0.0.1:6379> ZADD myset 11 user1
(integer) 1
127.0.0.1:6379> ZADD myset 11 user5
(integer) 1
127.0.0.1:6379> ZADD myset 24 user3
(integer) 1
127.0.0.1:6379> zadd myset 54 user2
(integer) 1
127.0.0.1:6379> zadd myset 11 user6
(integer) 1
and then did a ZRANGE, you'd get them in ascending order with the members ordered in alphabetical order:
127.0.0.1:6379> zrange myset 0 -1 WITHSCORES
1) "user1"
2) "11"
3) "user5"
4) "11"
5) "user6"
6) "11"
7) "user3"
8) "24"
9) "user2"
10) "54"
What it looks like, is your GUI is using, or are just passing in the rev argument to ZRANGE under the hood, which orders everything in reverse (scores descending, reverse alphabetical)
127.0.0.1:6379> ZRANGE myset 0 -1 WITHSCORES REV
1) "user2"
2) "54"
3) "user3"
4) "24"
5) "user6"
6) "11"
7) "user5"
8) "11"
9) "user1"
10) "11"
Second sort-by
There are a couple of ways you could handle the second sort by with a sorted set, let's assume you wanted to do this with a 32 bit unix timestamp
You could prepend the second sortby field to the member name so if user6's score came in at 1659579650, you'd just make the member name be 1659579650:user1, then when it orders it, it would do so lexigraphically
You could combine the score with the second, since 11 is the score, we could shift 11 32 bits to the left and add/or the timestamp to it, which comes out to 48,904,219,906, those will then order correctly, and then when you want to find the score, all you need to do is right-shift the score by 32 bits.