Since when has memcached been hard to configure, most times I've left it in either the default settings or upped the memory allocation. If you're going to treat

Since when has memcached been hard to configure, most times I've left it in either the default settings or upped the memory allocation. If you're going to treat Redis like a cache you should really be looking at memcached. "best of all, it’s open source" -- Open Source should never be the tickbox on a feature set that wins over another product. Look what the product provides now and into the future with the less work -- just because you can change or view the source code doesn't mean it's going to grow with you.