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I believe if you think of Redis as a data structure server, then there are lots of applications you can build out that have simple commands like set and get for both lists and hashmaps that are slightly different ways of thinking about saving and retrieving your data. The concept of a set is very powerful and easier to implement I believe than using SQL.



Relational databases are based on relational algebra which is all about operating on sets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_algebra




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