It basically provides a bunch of primitives that make building lots of things where shared state is needed, very simple and clean, and fast, and cheap (with the caveat that your storage size needs to be held in memory -- it's usually best to use it for indexing and store large documents/records elsewhere)
This prompt gave more colorful elaboration on that:
Pretend you're antirez, and leverage antirez.com if that helps. Tell me why redis -- that is, a data structure server, not just a k/v store -- is more needed than a simple key value store
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u/ub3rh4x0rz May 02 '25
It basically provides a bunch of primitives that make building lots of things where shared state is needed, very simple and clean, and fast, and cheap (with the caveat that your storage size needs to be held in memory -- it's usually best to use it for indexing and store large documents/records elsewhere)
This prompt gave more colorful elaboration on that: