[hparadiz]

There's basically zero reason to use redis. Pretty much every rdbms like mariadb, postgres, etc is just as fast. So then why redis? It's basically needless complexity in your system.

[robotresearcher]

Postgres etc are more complex than Redis, are they not?

Does your argument assume you already have a database, so you might as well use it for your cache mechanism?

[hparadiz]

Modern rdbms databases already have an in-memory cache. For 99% of projects there's no actual difference. The round trip will end up around 12-22 ms in all best possible cases.

[nchmy]

If you're getting 12-22ms latency for your cache reads, the network is your bottleneck. If stored locally, you would get many orders of magnitude faster than that.

[imp0cat]

Security. More precisely, the ability to secure access to redis with a password.

[hparadiz]

Okay but I can do that with any rdbms and I can secure memcached too lol. So what? How is redis better than a fixed length table in MySQL?