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reconditerose
4y ago
> It matters a lot for where i work, we believe multithreading is holding redis peformance back. Do you run stand alone Redis or Redis cluster? Multithreading is a strategy, but it isn't the only strategy to improving raw performanc
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reconditerose
4y ago
I think that is a pretty baseless claim, even more so given that the project had a complete leadership change only 2 years ago. There is a lot of interest in revamping the internals of Redis while still trying to maintain the original tenet
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reconditerose
4y ago
It won't change the conclusion, but we saw a lot less copy-on-write usage for most workloads.
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reconditerose
4y ago
Yes, the core folks in Redis now have outlined a plan for moving towards multi-threaded awhile ago. It's honestly not made a lot of progress because raw performance matters a lot less than is argued here. As was succinctly mentioned by
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reconditerose
4y ago
I actually think Redis really needs to trend towards a forkless approach for replication. Although copy-on-write provides a predictable form of memory usage, it does cause rather high memory utilization and requires a good bit of over provi
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reconditerose
4y ago
As one of the folks that currently works on Redis, I want to highlight the "Redis can be improved and should be improved". There is a lot of really good ideas put forth that are likely worth consideration in the Redis project as w
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reconditerose
5y ago
I think the point was that you lose the type information provided by JSON when you store the data in a hash. There is no way to tell the difference between a string "1" and an integer 1 when stored as values in a Redis Hash, since
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reconditerose
5y ago
The open source project is technically maintained by a separate group, https://redis.io/topics/governance , which just happens to include a lot of people from Redis ltd. Redis ltd. should definitely do a better job at d