[toomuchtodo]

If it's so easy, I'm sure we'll see replacements of equal quality. The initial Redis release was in 2009. I would think it's unlikely you're going to reach the same feature and stability parity orders of magnitude faster that Redis did.

[star-techate]

Certainly, it'll be a lot easier if you pick your redis-user in advance and look what its actual requirements are, so that you can focus on a solid implementation of those features.