diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0a44c9b8..9f979d51 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ a low-latency, memory-efficient, distributed cache written in Rust. designed to
 - **sets** — SADD, SREM, SMEMBERS, SISMEMBER, SCARD, SMISMEMBER, SUNION, SINTER, SDIFF, SUNIONSTORE, SINTERSTORE, SDIFFSTORE, SRANDMEMBER, SPOP, SSCAN, SMOVE, SINTERCARD
 - **bitmaps** — GETBIT, SETBIT, BITCOUNT, BITPOS, BITOP
 - **key commands** — DEL, UNLINK, EXISTS, EXPIRE, EXPIREAT, EXPIRETIME, TTL, PEXPIRE, PEXPIREAT, PEXPIRETIME, PTTL, PERSIST, TYPE, SCAN, KEYS, RENAME, COPY, TOUCH, RANDOMKEY, SORT, OBJECT ENCODING/REFCOUNT, WAIT
-- **server commands** — PING, ECHO, INFO, DBSIZE, FLUSHDB, BGSAVE, BGREWRITEAOF, AUTH, QUIT, CONFIG GET/SET/REWRITE, SLOWLOG, CLIENT ID/SETNAME/GETNAME/LIST, TIME, LASTSAVE, ROLE, MONITOR
+- **server commands** — PING, ECHO, INFO, DBSIZE, FLUSHDB, FLUSHALL, MEMORY USAGE, BGSAVE, BGREWRITEAOF, AUTH, QUIT, CONFIG GET/SET/REWRITE, SLOWLOG, CLIENT ID/SETNAME/GETNAME/LIST, TIME, LASTSAVE, ROLE, MONITOR
 - **transactions** — MULTI, EXEC, DISCARD, WATCH/UNWATCH for optimistic locking
 - **acl** — per-user command permissions and key pattern restrictions: ACL SETUSER, GETUSER, DELUSER, LIST, WHOAMI, CAT, USERS
 - **pub/sub** — SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, PSUBSCRIBE, PUNSUBSCRIBE, PUBLISH, plus PUBSUB introspection
@@ -46,6 +46,24 @@ a low-latency, memory-efficient, distributed cache written in Rust. designed to
 - **interactive CLI** — `ember-cli` with REPL, syntax highlighting, tab-completion, inline hints, cluster subcommands, and built-in benchmark
 - **graceful shutdown** — drains active connections on SIGINT/SIGTERM before exiting
 
+## not supported
+
+ember is purpose-built for caching. some Redis features are intentionally excluded:
+
+- **lua scripting** — `EVAL`, `EVALSHA`, `SCRIPT *` are not implemented and not planned. server-side logic may be supported via WASM extensions in a future release.
+- **streams** — `XADD`, `XREAD`, and related commands are not implemented. use a dedicated stream store (Kafka, Redpanda, etc.) for this.
+- **multiple databases** — `SELECT`, `MOVE`, `SWAPDB` are not supported. ember is single-database by design.
+- **bitfield** — `BITFIELD` and `BITFIELD_RO` are not planned; use application-level serialization instead.
+
+see [docs/compatibility.md](docs/compatibility.md) for the full command support matrix.
+
+## notable differences from redis
+
+- **RENAME** requires the source and destination keys to hash to the same shard. cross-shard renames return an error.
+- **transactions** (MULTI/EXEC) are fully atomic within a single shard. cross-shard transactions execute in order but are not globally atomic — the same limitation as Redis Cluster.
+- **geo commands** are coming in a future release.
+- `redis-cli` connects on port 6379 (RESP3). the typed gRPC API is on port 6380 (when `--features grpc` is compiled in).
+
 ## install
 
 **homebrew (macOS/Linux)**
diff --git a/crates/ember-cli/src/commands.rs b/crates/ember-cli/src/commands.rs
index 556e032e..48c83d7c 100644
--- a/crates/ember-cli/src/commands.rs
+++ b/crates/ember-cli/src/commands.rs
@@ -632,6 +632,18 @@ pub static COMMANDS: &[CommandInfo] = &[
         group: "server",
         summary: "remove all keys from the current database",
     },
+    CommandInfo {
+        name: "FLUSHALL",
+        args: "[ASYNC]",
+        group: "server",
+        summary: "remove all keys from all databases (alias for FLUSHDB in ember)",
+    },
+    CommandInfo {
+        name: "MEMORY USAGE",
+        args: "key [SAMPLES count]",
+        group: "server",
+        summary: "estimate memory usage for a key in bytes",
+    },
     CommandInfo {
         name: "INFO",
         args: "[section]",
diff --git a/crates/ember-core/src/keyspace/mod.rs b/crates/ember-core/src/keyspace/mod.rs
index 18036204..21da495c 100644
--- a/crates/ember-core/src/keyspace/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/ember-core/src/keyspace/mod.rs
@@ -906,6 +906,19 @@ impl Keyspace {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Returns the estimated memory usage in bytes for the given key,
+    /// or `None` if the key does not exist or is expired.
+    ///
+    /// Uses the cached value size for O(1) cost. The estimate covers the
+    /// key string, the serialized value, and the per-entry overhead.
+    pub fn memory_usage(&mut self, key: &str) -> Option<usize> {
+        if self.remove_if_expired(key) {
+            return None;
+        }
+        let entry = self.entries.get(key)?;
+        Some(entry.entry_size(key))
+    }
+
     /// Removes the expiration from a key.
     ///
     /// Returns `true` if the key existed and had a timeout that was removed.
diff --git a/crates/ember-core/src/shard/mod.rs b/crates/ember-core/src/shard/mod.rs
index 3eca665f..0c879be7 100644
--- a/crates/ember-core/src/shard/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/ember-core/src/shard/mod.rs
@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ pub enum ShardRequest {
     Ttl {
         key: String,
     },
+    /// MEMORY USAGE. Returns the estimated memory footprint of a key in bytes.
+    MemoryUsage {
+        key: String,
+    },
     Persist {
         key: String,
     },
@@ -1773,6 +1777,9 @@ fn dispatch(
             ShardResponse::Bool(ks.expireat(key, *timestamp))
         }
         ShardRequest::Ttl { key } => ShardResponse::Ttl(ks.ttl(key)),
+        ShardRequest::MemoryUsage { key } => {
+            ShardResponse::Integer(ks.memory_usage(key).map(|n| n as i64).unwrap_or(-1))
+        }
         ShardRequest::Persist { key } => ShardResponse::Bool(ks.persist(key)),
         ShardRequest::Pttl { key } => ShardResponse::Ttl(ks.pttl(key)),
         ShardRequest::Pexpire { key, milliseconds } => {
diff --git a/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/attributes.rs b/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/attributes.rs
index 0079b184..d242184f 100644
--- a/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/attributes.rs
+++ b/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/attributes.rs
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ impl Command {
             Command::BgSave => "bgsave",
             Command::BgRewriteAof => "bgrewriteaof",
             Command::FlushDb { .. } => "flushdb",
+            Command::FlushAll { .. } => "flushall",
+            Command::MemoryUsage { .. } => "memory",
             Command::ConfigGet { .. } => "config",
             Command::ConfigSet { .. } => "config",
             Command::ConfigRewrite => "config",
@@ -310,6 +312,7 @@ impl Command {
                 | Command::SMove { .. }
             // server / persistence
                 | Command::FlushDb { .. }
+                | Command::FlushAll { .. }
                 | Command::ConfigSet { .. }
                 | Command::Exec
                 | Command::BgRewriteAof
@@ -514,6 +517,8 @@ impl Command {
             }
             Command::BgSave | Command::BgRewriteAof => SERVER | ADMIN | SLOW,
             Command::FlushDb { .. } => KEYSPACE | WRITE | ADMIN | DANGEROUS | SLOW,
+            Command::FlushAll { .. } => KEYSPACE | WRITE | ADMIN | DANGEROUS | SLOW,
+            Command::MemoryUsage { .. } => READ | KEYSPACE | SLOW,
             Command::ConfigGet { .. } => SERVER | ADMIN | SLOW,
             Command::ConfigSet { .. } | Command::ConfigRewrite => SERVER | ADMIN | SLOW,
             Command::SlowLogGet { .. } | Command::SlowLogLen | Command::SlowLogReset => {
@@ -676,7 +681,8 @@ impl Command {
             | Command::Restore { key, .. }
             | Command::Sort { key, .. }
             | Command::GetDel { key }
-            | Command::GetEx { key, .. } => Some(key),
+            | Command::GetEx { key, .. }
+            | Command::MemoryUsage { key } => Some(key),
             Command::LMove { source, .. } => Some(source),
             Command::Copy { source, .. } => Some(source),
             Command::SMove { source, .. } => Some(source),
diff --git a/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/mod.rs b/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/mod.rs
index f45ed0c3..3c5fe85c 100644
--- a/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/mod.rs
@@ -173,6 +173,12 @@ pub enum Command {
     /// FLUSHDB \[ASYNC\]. Removes all keys from the database.
     FlushDb { async_mode: bool },
 
+    /// FLUSHALL \[ASYNC\]. Removes all keys (alias for FLUSHDB — Ember is single-database).
+    FlushAll { async_mode: bool },
+
+    /// MEMORY USAGE key \[SAMPLES count\]. Returns estimated memory usage in bytes.
+    MemoryUsage { key: String },
+
     /// CONFIG GET `pattern`. Returns matching server configuration parameters.
     ConfigGet { pattern: String },
 
diff --git a/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/parse.rs b/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/parse.rs
index 1fc51656..04b48b78 100644
--- a/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/parse.rs
+++ b/crates/ember-protocol/src/command/parse.rs
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ impl Command {
             "BGSAVE" => parse_bgsave(&frames[1..]),
             "BGREWRITEAOF" => parse_bgrewriteaof(&frames[1..]),
             "FLUSHDB" => parse_flushdb(&frames[1..]),
+            "FLUSHALL" => parse_flushall(&frames[1..]),
+            "MEMORY" => parse_memory_cmd(&frames[1..]),
             "SCAN" => parse_scan(&frames[1..]),
             "SSCAN" => parse_key_scan(&frames[1..], "SSCAN"),
             "HSCAN" => parse_key_scan(&frames[1..], "HSCAN"),
@@ -1021,6 +1023,39 @@ fn parse_flushdb(args: &[Frame]) -> Result<Command, ProtocolError> {
     Err(wrong_arity("FLUSHDB"))
 }
 
+fn parse_flushall(args: &[Frame]) -> Result<Command, ProtocolError> {
+    if args.is_empty() {
+        return Ok(Command::FlushAll { async_mode: false });
+    }
+    if args.len() == 1 {
+        let arg = extract_string(&args[0])?;
+        if arg.eq_ignore_ascii_case("ASYNC") {
+            return Ok(Command::FlushAll { async_mode: true });
+        }
+    }
+    Err(wrong_arity("FLUSHALL"))
+}
+
+fn parse_memory_cmd(args: &[Frame]) -> Result<Command, ProtocolError> {
+    if args.is_empty() {
+        return Err(ProtocolError::WrongArity("memory".into()));
+    }
+    let subcommand = extract_string(&args[0])?;
+    if subcommand.eq_ignore_ascii_case("USAGE") {
+        if args.len() < 2 {
+            return Err(wrong_arity("MEMORY USAGE"));
+        }
+        let key = extract_string(&args[1])?;
+        // Accept but ignore SAMPLES count — we always use the cached value size.
+        Ok(Command::MemoryUsage { key })
+    } else {
+        Err(ProtocolError::InvalidCommandFrame(format!(
+            "unknown subcommand '{}' for 'memory' command",
+            subcommand
+        )))
+    }
+}
+
 fn parse_unlink(args: &[Frame]) -> Result<Command, ProtocolError> {
     if args.is_empty() {
         return Err(wrong_arity("UNLINK"));
diff --git a/crates/ember-server/src/acl.rs b/crates/ember-server/src/acl.rs
index cb8857ea..eb5bec05 100644
--- a/crates/ember-server/src/acl.rs
+++ b/crates/ember-server/src/acl.rs
@@ -873,6 +873,7 @@ fn commands_in_category(flag: u64) -> Vec<&'static str> {
         Command::BgSave,
         Command::BgRewriteAof,
         Command::FlushDb { async_mode: false },
+        Command::FlushAll { async_mode: false },
         Command::ConfigGet {
             pattern: String::new(),
         },
diff --git a/crates/ember-server/src/connection/execute.rs b/crates/ember-server/src/connection/execute.rs
index eebbd263..78e694e3 100644
--- a/crates/ember-server/src/connection/execute.rs
+++ b/crates/ember-server/src/connection/execute.rs
@@ -856,6 +856,30 @@ pub(super) async fn execute(
             }
         }
 
+        // Ember is single-database, so FLUSHALL is identical to FLUSHDB.
+        Command::FlushAll { async_mode } => {
+            let req = if async_mode {
+                || ShardRequest::FlushDbAsync
+            } else {
+                || ShardRequest::FlushDb
+            };
+            match engine.broadcast(req).await {
+                Ok(_) => Frame::Simple("OK".into()),
+                Err(e) => Frame::Error(format!("ERR {e}")),
+            }
+        }
+
+        Command::MemoryUsage { key } => {
+            let idx = engine.shard_for_key(&key);
+            let req = ShardRequest::MemoryUsage { key: key.clone() };
+            match engine.send_to_shard(idx, req).await {
+                Ok(ShardResponse::Integer(-1)) => Frame::Null,
+                Ok(ShardResponse::Integer(n)) => Frame::Integer(n),
+                Ok(other) => Frame::Error(format!("ERR unexpected shard response: {other:?}")),
+                Err(e) => Frame::Error(format!("ERR {e}")),
+            }
+        }
+
         Command::Keys { pattern } => {
             match engine
                 .broadcast(|| ShardRequest::Keys {
diff --git a/docs/compatibility.md b/docs/compatibility.md
index 6c785f47..67d54619 100644
--- a/docs/compatibility.md
+++ b/docs/compatibility.md
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ Ember also exposes port `6379` by default, the same as Redis, so most default co
 | CLIENT SETNAME | ✓ | |
 | CLIENT GETNAME | ✓ | |
 | CLIENT LIST | ✓ | |
-| FLUSHALL | ✗ | use FLUSHDB instead |
+| FLUSHALL | ✓ | ASYNC mode supported; single-database, equivalent to FLUSHDB |
 | SAVE | ✗ | use BGSAVE instead |
 | SHUTDOWN | ✗ | use SIGTERM instead |
 | DEBUG | ✗ | not implemented |
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Ember also exposes port `6379` by default, the same as Redis, so most default co
 | CLIENT NO-EVICT | ✗ | not implemented |
 | CLIENT NO-TOUCH | ✗ | not implemented |
 | LATENCY | ✗ | not implemented |
-| MEMORY USAGE | ✗ | not implemented |
+| MEMORY USAGE | ✓ | returns estimated key memory in bytes; SAMPLES option accepted and ignored |
 | MEMORY STATS | ✗ | not implemented |
 | MEMORY DOCTOR | ✗ | not implemented |
 | RESET | ✗ | not implemented |
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ all cluster commands are implemented. see the cluster documentation for operatio
 some Redis commands are explicitly not planned for Ember:
 
 **scripting**
-- `EVAL`, `EVALSHA`, `EVALRO`, `SCRIPT LOAD`, `SCRIPT EXISTS`, `SCRIPT FLUSH` — Lua scripting is an anti-goal. We may support WASM-based extensions in the future instead.
+- `EVAL`, `EVALSHA`, `EVALRO`, `SCRIPT LOAD`, `SCRIPT EXISTS`, `SCRIPT FLUSH` — Lua scripting is explicitly not planned. if you need server-side logic, WASM-based extensions may be supported in a future release.
 - `FCALL`, `FUNCTION LOAD`, `FUNCTION LIST`, `FUNCTION DELETE` — same reasoning as EVAL.
 
 **streams**
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ some Redis commands are explicitly not planned for Ember:
 - `BITFIELD`, `BITFIELD_RO` — not planned; use application-level serialization if needed.
 
 **geo**
-- `GEOADD`, `GEOPOS`, `GEODIST`, `GEORADIUS`, `GEORADIUSBYMEMBER`, `GEOSEARCH`, `GEOSEARCHSTORE`, `GEOHASH` — not implemented yet.
+- `GEOADD`, `GEOPOS`, `GEODIST`, `GEORADIUS`, `GEORADIUSBYMEMBER`, `GEOSEARCH`, `GEOSEARCHSTORE`, `GEOHASH` — coming in a future release.
 
 **other**
 - `LOLWUT` — not implemented.