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by robotresearcher 2 hours ago
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?

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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.