[mscdex]

I wonder why such an old version of Redis was used in these benchmarks? Redis 3.0.7 was released back in January 2016. The current stable version as of this writing is 6.2.5.

EDIT: Additionally the version of memcached used in the benchmarks was from July of 2012 -- even older!

[ramchip]

Neither this article nor the referenced DZone one actually benchmarked Redis and Memcached. The numbers are taken from the 2016 paper: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-calculated-time-to-w...

[bdibs]

Well the site does seem to be some sort of PostgreSQL consultancy.

[mianos]

In the "Other thoughts/notes" he acknowledges all of the tested software was old. (And it being I/O bound). The whole thing is more of "this is kind of interesting, you should do this test", than hard facts. I'd do it myself today but I have a busy one.

[mscdex]

That doesn't answer the why though. It just makes it seem suspicious. How hard could it have been to use the latest versions of the non-Postgres software? Even as a "this is kind of interesting" experiment it seems like you'd have to go out of your way to install such old versions.

[taf2]

I could be wrong but it seems like on any recent Linux distro it would be harder to install these older versions… doubling the suspicion factor for me at least