On the first part, yes there are pleanty of wire-compatable redis clones. And while those are interesting, its your second part that I find interesting as well.

On the first part, yes there are pleanty of wire-compatable redis clones. And while those are interesting, its your second part that I find interesting as well. The idea of having a strong templating engine with a fast storage backend able to use dynamic content to deliver efficiently renderes websites with minimal hardware.