[bsg75]

There has been a lot of constructive discussion in the Google Groups thread, and a lot of negativity on the same topic on Twitter. Ignoring for the moment the difference in discussion platforms, I am uncertain why the sudden uptick in Redis negativity.

Is it from users trying (and failing) to replace RDBMS or distributed platforms feature-for-feature with a single threaded, memory limited store like Redis? Or could it be FUD from people interested in seeing their new platform-du-jour get more attention?

[bri3d]

The "clustering" feature is just now becoming stable. Distributed systems are complex (in no small part because they're generally poorly explained) so some mistakes were guaranteed. Hence the uptick in critics makes perfect sense even sans self-promotion conspiracies.