I think the programming language is not relevant, especially since startup time plays no role. A different design can have much more impact, and IIRC Garnet is

I think the programming language is not relevant, especially since startup time plays no role. A different design can have much more impact, and IIRC Garnet is not fully compatible with Redis. The main difference appears to be that Garnet is more parallel, according to this student's report of benchmarking various keystores (see the "CPU usage" sections in the PDF) https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1969436&dswid=-8271 https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A196...