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Awesome write-up! Curious on the decision to choose MySQL since it's a write-heavy load with minimal querying. Would something like Redis be better suited? I'm
by Zaheer 8y ago
Awesome write-up! Curious on the decision to choose MySQL since it's a write-heavy load with minimal querying. Would something like Redis be better suited? I'm not super familiar with Redis so just curious about what other DBs were considered.
- jlisam13 8y agoThe biggest problem with Redis compared to MySQL in this use case is persistence. You could technically run Redis using the different persistence options https://redis.io/topics/persistence https://redis.io/topics/persistence, but it is not going to be as safe as storing things in a RDBMS.