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robotresearcheryesterday at 5:40 AM1 replyview on HN

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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hparadizyesterday at 6:27 AM

Modern rdbms databases already have an in-memory cache. For 99% of projects there's no actual difference. The round trip will end up around 12-22 ms in all best possible cases.

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