[mystifyingpoi]

For simple cases, it is probably a total overkill to even consider it, but for something heavier, embedding the database gives you a chance to trivially migrate later to a separate database server.

[thefreeman]

Redis is not a database. It’s a key / value store.

[rytis]

It kind of is a database:

A key-value database, or key-value store, is a data storage paradigm designed for storing, retrieving, and managing associative arrays, a data structure more commonly known today as a dictionary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key–value_database

[theultdev]

that's still a database.

it's not a relational database.

[bijowo1676]

you are confusing redis with memcached