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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What is the advantage of Redis over something like memcached + a RDBMS?
sure, dependes of course if you're using redis only for a simple key value store.
Why did you decide to use Redis and in what areas are you using it?
Redis with its rich data set is much more suitable for this use case.
why not just use redis for both - just curious ?
Is it worthwhile to replace a MySQL with Redis? Am I losing something?
What does Redis do that you can’t do trivially with something else?Postgres or SQLite for example.
Redis would probably be better.
Redis is a data structure server, for a limited set of data structures. If that's what you want, then use Redis.
Doesn't Redis already address all of this?