[zeckalpha]

Redis is not a database. Please, do not use it for persistence. I have been bitten too many times by services that tried.

[avinassh]

I am curious, what all kinds of issues you ran into?

[zeckalpha]

Data loss, particularly under high write volume. Partitioning can help. There are a few ways to enable persistence, but you should still treat it like a cache, like you would Memcache or Elasticsearch.