Comment by eternalban
9 years ago
You are confusing the distinction between a cache & a non-durable datastore. Of course Redis is not a database, did I say it was?
Data is implicitly removed from a "cache" in course of normal operation.
9 years ago
You are confusing the distinction between a cache & a non-durable datastore. Of course Redis is not a database, did I say it was?
Data is implicitly removed from a "cache" in course of normal operation.
Lets try it one last time.
In-memory database is as much a database as a RAM-disk is a disk.
Reducing technology assessment to puns is ultimately not very informative. I recommend you read up on Stonebraker's work the past few years. Durability issues of in-mem DBs are addressed.
It is certainly true that many pure mem vendors out there are playing fast and loose with terminology, but if one were to accept your assertions, then when the day arrives when spinning disks are antiques then I guess we no longer would have databases.