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		tengbretson 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You might not need Redis If it's purely ephemeral and not replicated between instances what are you getting from redis that couldn't be done with SQLite or even a good old hashmap in a separate thread?

phendrenad2 9 months ago | [–]

Redis is probably slightly faster than sqlite, and developers are used to using redis primitives and APIs.

ricardobeat 9 months ago | [–]

You get standardized data structures and consistent operations on them for free.

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