why is Redis useful, why it might suck - mmedrano9438/peripheral-brain GitHub Wiki

  • remote dictionary server
  • key/value store
    • Lists and sets operations
  • It's like a good pen-knife or multitool - it solves a bunch of different but related problems, all in a convenient pocket sized wrapper.
  • open source tool used to store data
  • competitors (mongoDB, Google, AWS, Oracle, Microsoft)