You must've misread somewhere. The OP said "Why not being restful and using HTTP verbs?" I said "because there are far more commands than HTTP verbs". In other

You must've misread somewhere. The OP said "Why not being restful and using HTTP verbs?" I said "because there are far more commands than HTTP verbs". In other words, this has nothing to do with "the amount of operations you can do with rest", this has to do with not being able to use the limited number of HTTP verbs to correspond to the multitude of Redis commands.