It makes it great for storing distributed locks, semaphores, and thanks to Lua scripting it can store/update cache invalidation lists - eg https://github.com/Su

It makes it great for storing distributed locks, semaphores, and thanks to Lua scripting it can store/update cache invalidation lists - eg https://github.com/Suor/django-cacheops https://github.com/Suor/django-cacheops