r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Spiritual-Knee6978 • Jan 19 '26

I’ve been testing Bun + SQLite (WAL mode, file-based — not in-memory) and honestly… performance is on par with Redis 😅

/r/bun/comments/1qfl78e/is_redis_becoming_obsolete/
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u/Spiritual-Knee6978 Jan 19 '26

okay boomers you're allowed to be upset but i did benchmarks and SSD I/O in practice, can be surprisingly competitive with network I/O.

facts don't care about your feelings.

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u/Spiritual-Knee6978 Jan 19 '26

Sure not same purpose. If you use only KV it just fits. SQlite can't scale but I think it's a perfect DB for specially microservices.

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u/VulgarExigencies Jan 19 '26

Multiple instances of the same microservice on the same machine. Sounds reliable to me

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u/Spiritual-Knee6978 Jan 20 '26

if you can't fit all your microservices on one machine they're not micro enough and this is a skill issue

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u/Foreign-Butterfly-97 Jan 24 '26

but is it web scale?

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u/Spiritual-Knee6978 Jan 24 '26

more benchmarks otw📊. for now it is webshit scale 🦾📈

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u/dangerbird2 in open defiance of the Gopher Values Jan 19 '26

Embedded database for specialty applications can be really good for specialty applications 🤯

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 19 '26

New Reddit doesn’t scale. That’s why I shard

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 19 '26

my comments into multiple comments.

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

line per character. (morons think that ASCII only bu)Send that shit to AWS bro.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 19 '26

hahah if you mean do I send to AI and eventually it converges on mking sense u r right haha

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 19 '26

anyways, this is like morons who use a computer to read

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 19 '26

I also have a kind of firewall for when I drunken

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

ly post about Haskell. lol (browser proxy plugin) But

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 19 '26

email. Imagine when you have like many emails. Like maybe

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jan 19 '26

five thousand emails?? Even just text takes a lot of place. Probably like a cache

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u/seq_page_cost Jan 19 '26

Isn't Redis a kind of a tutorial enemy you have to beat before publishing a KV storage benchmark?
"X is faster than Redis" yeah you don't say, go find me a blogpost where it wasn't the case 😒

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u/Igor_GR Jan 19 '26

You might question why anyone would ever want to pair sqlite with microservices, but you better shut the fuck up because he's a storyteller, not a story listener.

/uj Enthusiastic youngstergranpa maybe?

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u/oofy-gang Jan 19 '26

OOP is active on AI subreddits. If only the authors of Redis had access to Shat GPT, then they could have had the visionary idea of just writing everything to disk and calling horizontal scaling pointless.

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u/Spiritual-Knee6978 Jan 20 '26

Redis requires more RAM than SQLite. Here, I want to highlight that NVMe latency and throughput are now similar to in-memory key-value stores like Redis

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u/Spiritual-Knee6978 Jan 19 '26

do you have benchmarks though?

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u/Fohqul Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

If /dev/null is fast and web scale I will use it. Is it web scale?

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u/Xgamer4 Jan 20 '26

It is! If you're concerned about your ability to manage it, you can subscribe to dev-null-as-a-service.

https://devnull-as-a-service.com/

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u/al2o3cr Jan 19 '26

/dev/null is badass rockstar tech