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hparadiztoday at 5:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

There's basically zero reason to use redis. Pretty much every rdbms like mariadb, postgres, etc is just as fast. So then why redis? It's basically needless complexity in your system.


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robotresearchertoday at 5:40 AM

Postgres etc are more complex than Redis, are they not?

Does your argument assume you already have a database, so you might as well use it for your cache mechanism?

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imp0cattoday at 5:24 AM

Security. More precisely, the ability to secure access to redis with a password.

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