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The Fastest Redis Ever

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82 points lsferreira42 | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 21:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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marklubi ◴[21 Nov 24 01:21 UTC] No.42200044[source]▶
This sort of makes me sad. Redis has strayed from what its original goal/purpose was.

I’ve been using it since it was in beta. Simple, clear, fast.

The company I’m working for now keeps trying to add more and more functionality using Redis, that doesn’t belong in Redis, and then complains about Redis scaling issues.

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reissbaker ◴[21 Nov 24 06:50 UTC] No.42201795[source]▶
What do you think doesn't belong in Redis? I've always viewed Redis as basically "generic datastructures in a database" — as opposed to say, Memcached, which is a very simple in-memory-only key/value store (that has always been much faster than Redis). It's hard for me to point to specific features and say: that doesn't belong in Redis! Because Redis has generally felt (to me) like a grab bag of data structures + algorithms, that are meant to be fairly low-latency but not maximally so, where your dataset has to fit in RAM (but is regularly flushed to disk so you avoid cold start issues).
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1. lucianbr ◴[21 Nov 24 08:07 UTC] No.42202143[source]▶
Generic data structures in memory, grab bag of structures and algorithms... sounds more like a programming language or library than an external tool. C++ STL for example would fit these descriptions perfectly.

Doing everything is a recipe for bloat. In a database, in a distributed cache, in a programming language, in anything.

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2. bittermandel ◴[21 Nov 24 08:31 UTC] No.42202272[source]▶
Don't think the argument is "everything", just the things that can be done within the protocol. There's really not much bloat being added considering the "limitations": https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec

I think it wouldn't be unfair to compare it to Golang, which has in my opinion a quite unbloated stdlib which allows you do almost anything without external libraries!