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I wonder why such an old version of Redis was used in these benchmarks? Redis 3.0.7 was released back in January 2016. The current stable version as of this wri
by mscdex 5y ago
I wonder why such an old version of Redis was used in these benchmarks? Redis 3.0.7 was released back in January 2016. The current stable version as of this writing is 6.2.5.
EDIT: Additionally the version of memcached used in the benchmarks was from July of 2012 -- even older!
- mianos 5y agoIn the "Other thoughts/notes" he acknowledges all of the tested software was old. (And it being I/O bound). The whole thing is more of "this is kind of interesting, you should do this test", than hard facts. I'd do it myself today but I have a busy one.
- mscdex 5y agoThat doesn't answer the why though. It just makes it seem suspicious. How hard could it have been to use the latest versions of the non-Postgres software? Even as a "this is kind of interesting" experiment it seems like you'd have to go out of your way to install such old versions.
- taf2 5y agoI could be wrong but it seems like on any recent Linux distro it would be harder to install these older versions… doubling the suspicion factor for me at least
- bdibs 5y agoWell the site does seem to be some sort of PostgreSQL consultancy.
- ramchip 5y agoNeither this article nor the referenced DZone one actually benchmarked Redis and Memcached. The numbers are taken from the 2016 paper: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-calculated-time-to-write-key-value-pairs-ms_tbl3_304780144 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-calculated-time-to-w...