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[dimgl]

Redis is incredible. I built a matchmaker with it as the sole data store and it has been a breeze to use. It's so simple to visualize data structures with it and I just can't see myself using any other in-memory data store. Also Redis Sentinel is fantastic.

[kortilla → dimgl]

What data structure can’t be used in memory?

[dimgl → kortilla]

Any data structure can be used in memory. I just like the abstractions that Redis provides me. It's really easy to visualize how the data is going to be organized.

[Can_Not → dimgl]

And it's atomically available to multiple connections in your app.

[MuffinFlavored → dimgl]

What does Redis Sentinel do in a nutshell?

[33degrees → MuffinFlavored]

Provides high availability for Redis

[manigandham → MuffinFlavored]

It's a small monitoring program that checks a master/replica pair and alerts you or initiates a failover.