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by throwaway7783 460 days ago
Why is Redis regarded so lowly? Now, Redis Search, I understand. Very buggy, search index misses records and doesn't tell that it missed them and so on.

Core Redis is a solid piece of technology, afaik

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Probably the same reasons dynamically-scaled Aerospike is not as popular. Redis primarily has a reputation of just "caching" stuff in memory, but probably the rates of CVE in the distributed clients soured some peoples opinions.

Distributed systems is hard, and what seems like a trivial choice about design constraints can quickly balloon in cost. =3