It would, and you'd also get nice features like proper transactions and referential integrity. BUT that comes at a cost. Doing that in Redis is just so easy, a

It would, and you'd also get nice features like proper transactions and referential integrity. BUT that comes at a cost. Doing that in Redis is just so easy, and the vast majority of the time no-one is going to notice a few concurrency errors, YOLO! ;-) To be serious: it's a nice tool to have in the box and is amazing for inexperience/start developers because you can do a lot with very little time investment or knowledge.