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Once we get the kind of storage you're talking about Redis will be much less interesting since its big difference is that it stores everything in RAM. If that i
by amock 13y ago
Once we get the kind of storage you're talking about Redis will be much less interesting since its big difference is that it stores everything in RAM. If that is no longer an advantage then Redis will become a much more niche tool because you'll be able to get similar speeds out of other databases when they aren't constrained by disk IO.
- kijin 13y agoTheoretically, you may be right. But in practice, Redis was designed from the ground up with data structures that are heavily optimized for RAM, whereas traditional databases like PostgreSQL are heavily optimized for disk storage with RAM buffers. Although every database will benefit from faster storage, it will take at least several months, but more likely a few years, to modify traditional databases to take full advantage of the new paradigm. Redis on the other hand will probably require much fewer modifications.