Fred Wu
CTO by day, freelancing software consultant by night. Founder of Persumi.
A few days ago I was conducting some preliminary tests and benchmarks on a couple of NoSQL solutions such as Redis, Cassandra and Riak.
As expected, Redis performed really really well, its speed is unmatchable by Cassandra and Riak.
However, that’s not the point.
One thing I noticed is that quite a few people don’t really get what ’scalability’ actually means. In this case, Redis does not scale (yet), so comparing the raw performance (on a single machine) isn’t entirely useful.
Both Cassandra...
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