The Buzz on Redis (and NoSQL)
Redis is getting a lot of buzz for its fast read/write performance and its innovative use cases beyond just being a key/value store. For example, at the second Big Data DC meetup last week, Nick Kleinschmidt of Lucid Media discussed how they are using Redis at his firm for online display advertising.
Today the top link on Hacker News is how to add Redis to your current stack. It’s a great piece that explains what Redis is and how you can use it to augment your existing web application infrastructure.
Despite some consternation from the “you’re doing storage wrong” traditional SQL crowd, the “Not Only”-SQL movement is great for innovation in the storage space. More of these innovative use cases will continue to come up as NoSQL solutions with different flavors of storage formats and CAP Theorem choices proliferate.
