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Redis 3.2.0 is out

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Re: Redis 3.2.0 is out

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Post by thwarted »

antirez wrote: post #28
Mahn wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fact it's quite possibly the only piece of software that HN hasn't bashed or harshly criticized so far :)

Thanks, I really receive good sentiments from the community. I've the feeling that this is not due just to the fact that many developers find Redis useful. It has very serious limits like many other softwares. It is that so far Redis was never proposed as "The Shit", the silver bullet that will save you from your data problem. Is just something I and the other contribs try to do with love, without pretending we are g…

Is just something I and the other contribs try to do with love, without pretending we are going to save the world. I wish this vision was a bit more common

So much open source is the result of, as is traditionally said, developers scratching their own itch. That's not to say that the developers don't start a project to "fix all the things wrong with the current options", but this is a more pragmatic view than the "this software is the final ultimate solution to problem X" that things eventually grow into having attached to them. I think a lot of proposing things as silver bullets grows out of the community as it gets more popular and is more the users proselytizing their flavor of the week rather than the core developers presenting it as something it's not.

The commercial side is, of course, a different beast, where salesmenship is required for any kind of longevity.

Re: Redis 3.2.0 is out

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Post by [deleted] »

cft wrote: post #3

I like their new GEO sorted set with latitude and longitude. Can someone point me to a [reasonably priced] geocoding database to display nearest Town, Region (only where appropriate), Country (in English) based on latitude and longitude?

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Re: Redis 3.2.0 is out

#53

Post by rspeer »

antirez wrote: post #28
Mahn wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fact it's quite possibly the only piece of software that HN hasn't bashed or harshly criticized so far :)

Thanks, I really receive good sentiments from the community. I've the feeling that this is not due just to the fact that many developers find Redis useful. It has very serious limits like many other softwares. It is that so far Redis was never proposed as "The Shit", the silver bullet that will save you from your data problem. Is just something I and the other contribs try to do with love, without pretending we are g…

This is it. Redis is one of the few things in the data-persistence space that is honest about what it can't do.

So many other DBs, caches, or whatever will promise that they can solve all my problems, making me quite angry when I spend weeks developing around them and find out that I've just wasted all that time because their marketing people lied to me.

Re: Redis 3.2.0 is out

#54

Post by tyre »

antirez wrote: post #9
PaulRobinson wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Geo is insanely useful when you're after stuff within x miles of a known location - so a lot of mobile apps. My problem with many existing geo implementations is they assume that a circular radius is the query type I care about, and longitude and latitude is sufficient to know where I actually am in terms of jurisdiction, etc. Being able to add fine grained polygons to represent national, state, county or town bounda…

Hey Paul, we have this feature added as a Lua script, but adding it in a native way could be interesting actually. Itamar Haber wrote the Lua script and was pushing for adding it in a native way, I wanted to check after the release the actual demand for it.

This would be extremely helpful. We work with local governments and they have a cornucopia of geo-boundaries to query across. PostGIS works really well, but providing a cache-layer on top via Redis for simple counts would be amazing.

Re: Redis 3.2.0 is out

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Post by matt2000 »

The new BITFIELD seems like it could be really cool, but I can't quite figure out the use case. Anybody planning on using that that can enlighten me? Thanks.

Re: Redis 3.2.0 is out

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Post by kinkdr »

I've been using RC for a couple of months now in production, albeit my site is very small, and has been proven rock-stable. And the code is a pleasure to read. Amazing piece of software! Keep up the good work!

Re: Redis 3.2.0 is out

#57

Post by st0p »

antirez wrote: post #28
Mahn wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In fact it's quite possibly the only piece of software that HN hasn't bashed or harshly criticized so far :)

Thanks, I really receive good sentiments from the community. I've the feeling that this is not due just to the fact that many developers find Redis useful. It has very serious limits like many other softwares. It is that so far Redis was never proposed as "The Shit", the silver bullet that will save you from your data problem. Is just something I and the other contribs try to do with love, without pretending we are g…

Redis has proven to be a very flexible to use and very easily to deploy piece of software. Muchos gracias.

Re: Redis 3.2.0 is out

#58

Post by neovintage »

koolba wrote: post #16

Redis is in a very small category of software that's been pleasant to work with from day one and continues to be on a daily basis. Kudos to antirez on everything before this and another great release.

Redis has a great developer experience. It's super easy to spin up and to add to applications. There have been a few warts though when it comes to operational experience in production. I really miss things like administrative connections and tls for client connections that I get in the relational db world. Also, using redis in highly regulated environments is challenging because you have to meet all sorts of compliance requirements. As a result, I find myself jumping through a ton of hoops to get redis to work there. It'd be great if it "just worked" in that arena.

Re: Redis 3.2.0 is out

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Post by cullenking »

matt2000 wrote: post #55

The new BITFIELD seems like it could be really cool, but I can't quite figure out the use case. Anybody planning on using that that can enlighten me? Thanks.

I plan on using it to track what database objects have a corresponding cached image thumbnail. 10 million objects in my database, thumbnails generated on the fly, fast get/set the unique ID of the object in the bitfield. very small storage for what you get.
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