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Discussion on: Redis - the What, Why and How to use Redis as a primary database

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Sven

Hey Nana,
thank you for the great tutorial.

May I ask for a short opinion on the following matter?
Currently I'm working on a concept for a price comparison website and I'm tending to use mongo db or redis (incl. redisJSON) as the one and only db for this project.

My thoughts are based on the following aspects:

  • Due to the lack of major e-commerce processes, I guess there is no need for a complex relational model in the first place
  • I assume that the read and write processes for our less structured data will be faster than with a SQL pendant but I'm not quite sure it is noticable.
  • It is most likely that we will upgrade our product attributes iterative during the whole project
  • From frontend to backend we will relate on JS (node.js) we hope we can profit from the native JSON support.

What is your first opinion on my thoughts? Please keep in mind that I'm far from completing my research on this decision.

Best regards
Sven