Redis Comparisons

Discussions revolve around comparing Redis to alternatives like memcached, MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite, debating its advantages, use cases, persistence, clustering, and suitability as a database or cache.

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antihero Jan 17, 2011 View on HN

What is the advantage of Redis over something like memcached + a RDBMS?

mcorrientes May 8, 2011 View on HN

sure, dependes of course if you're using redis only for a simple key value store.

itamarhaber Dec 23, 2014 View on HN

Why did you decide to use Redis and in what areas are you using it?

navinsylvester Mar 22, 2018 View on HN

Redis with its rich data set is much more suitable for this use case.

misiti3780 Apr 18, 2013 View on HN

why not just use redis for both - just curious ?

edpichler Feb 27, 2019 View on HN

Is it worthwhile to replace a MySQL with Redis? Am I losing something?

andrewstuart Nov 26, 2024 View on HN

What does Redis do that you can’t do trivially with something else?Postgres or SQLite for example.

dudus Jul 30, 2019 View on HN

Redis would probably be better.

immibis Feb 8, 2025 View on HN

Redis is a data structure server, for a limited set of data structures. If that's what you want, then use Redis.

iammru Jul 9, 2020 View on HN

Doesn't Redis already address all of this?