<story><title>Redis 2.2.0 RC1 is out</title><url>http://antirez.com/post/redis-2.2.0-rc1-is-out.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>seunosewa</author><text>Really?  What stuff is PostgreSQL not good at, exactly?</text></item><item><author>geoffc</author><text>I love Redis and the new features rock! I use Postgres and Redis in tandem and it is a great combo. Postgres for all the stuff SQL databases are good at and Redis for all the stuff they are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fredoliveira</author><text>That tone is asking for some passionate replies ;-)&lt;p&gt;This isn&apos;t about PostgreSQL at all. There&apos;s things where relational databases are a good fit, and things that are a bad fit. As such, this isn&apos;t about what PostgreSQL does poorly, but about the cases where a key-value store with some pretty good data structures comes in handy. Would you really store temporary data in your relational database? Would you use it as a caching mechanism? Perhaps as a queue? Not unless you&apos;re crazy. So I guess this isn&apos;t about what PostgreSQL performs poorly, but about where Redis is a better solution.</text></comment>
<story><title>Redis 2.2.0 RC1 is out</title><url>http://antirez.com/post/redis-2.2.0-rc1-is-out.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>seunosewa</author><text>Really?  What stuff is PostgreSQL not good at, exactly?</text></item><item><author>geoffc</author><text>I love Redis and the new features rock! I use Postgres and Redis in tandem and it is a great combo. Postgres for all the stuff SQL databases are good at and Redis for all the stuff they are not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>defen</author><text>I&apos;m not sure how to efficiently implement redis-style sorted sets using SQL, but the fact that I have to think about it at all means it&apos;s easier to use redis.&lt;p&gt;A lot of the other things could probably be done with the right combination of stored procedures and clever SQL but again, redis makes it so much easier as to make things qualitatively different.  It&apos;s just a bunch of C files with no real external dependencies (I don&apos;t even have to run ./configure before building it!).&lt;p&gt;Operationally, for a generic non-db-expert kind of person like me, redis is much simpler to manage than PostgreSQL.  With redis I don&apos;t need to worry about vacuuming, write ahead logs, archiving, query tuning &amp;#38; statistics, lock management, etc (to name a few things from the config file).</text></comment>