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This is cool, but do we need another key-value store?
by jawngee 18y ago
This is cool, but do we need another key-value store?
- antirez 18y agoanswer here: http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/FAQ http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/FAQ The most important part for the lazy guys: So what is Redis really about? The User interface with the programmer. Redis aims to export to the programmer the right tools needed to model a wide range of problems. Sets, Lists with O(1) push operation, lrange and ltrim, server-side fast intersection between sets, are primitives that allow to model complex problems with a key value database. As a proof try to play and download the source of our small twitter clone at http://retwis.antirez.com http://retwis.antirez.com and imagine to write it with a plain key-value DB: it's much harder, and slower.