Let's not mistake entertaining with fluffy. If you want benchmarks, redis.io already has that pretty well covered. Everything I've read about redis made me thin

Let's not mistake entertaining with fluffy. If you want benchmarks, redis.io already has that pretty well covered. Everything I've read about redis made me think of it as either a database or a replacement for memcache, but it's be helpful to think about it as something more abstract. The scratchpad idea is something I hadn't heard, and seemed worth sharing.