# Efficient Bulk Hash Insertion with Redis 8.10's HIMPORT

DevFeed: [Efficient Bulk Hash Insertion with Redis 8.10's HIMPORT](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/efficient-bulk-hash-insertion-with-redis-8-10-s-himport-4803.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://redis.io/blog/efficient-bulk-hash-insertion-with-redis-810s-himport/>)

Author: David Maier

Published: 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Redis Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/redis-blog.md>)

Topics: [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>), [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

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## AI overview

This article explains how to use Redis 8.10's HIMPORT command with redis-rb to perform more efficient bulk hash insertion in Ruby. It covers connection setup, prepared field sets, automatic preparation, reconnection behavior, the demo CLI, and pipelined imports.

## Source excerpt

I'm not a Ruby developer, and my code samples might make that clear. However, there are two reasons I'm using Ruby for the examples in this article: A new release of redis-rb. Its support for a new Redis command: HIMPORT. Getting started Establish...