From the article: > These are the two primary reasons Redis sucks as a primary store: > > You have to be able to fit all your data in memory, and

From the article: > These are the two primary reasons Redis sucks as a primary store: > > You have to be able to fit all your data in memory, and > If your server fails between disk syncs you lose anything > that was sitting in memory. Antirez explained how redis persistence works[0] some time ago. A good read, and only then one can evaluate the "sucks" part, for one's particular use case. [0]: http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-persistence-demystified.html http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-persistence-demystifie...