Mainline memcached is very well tuned, so it's sort of the odd one out here. But yes, Redis is very much designed against the grain of modern hardware. It also

Mainline memcached is very well tuned, so it's sort of the odd one out here. But yes, Redis is very much designed against the grain of modern hardware. It also is a very minimalist design, that works well within its limits, but falls down hard when you push those limits, particularly with snapshotting and replication.