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Re:Redis for win32 and the Microsoft patch by beagle3 on Friday December 09, 2011 @11:27AM (#3334282)
>> Really, unless you run it on a "server", then sqlite with properly set cache parameters is almost surely a better choice, and works on Win32 since 2002 or so.

> It might make sense for end-user business software if that software ever has to be run offline.

I'm sorry, I'm entirely unimaginative -- but I can't think of a use case for an "end-user" offline Redis server (regardless of O/S) that is better served by redis' sweet spot than by a local sqlite or postgres install. Can you help me here?

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Re:Redis for win32 and the Microsoft patch by regularfry on Saturday December 10, 2011 @04:23AM (#3337310)
If you already have an app developed which uses redis, and want to provide an offline version, it's much less work to run a local redis than to rewrite the storage backend. Yes, it might have made sense to just use sqlite from the beginning, but we don't always have the luxury of perfect future requirements knowledge.
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