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Re:IKV: embedded key-value store, 100x faster than Redis by mike_d on Friday February 23, 2024 @06:56PM (#39487696)
Someone’s April Fools joke leaked early it looks like.

Benchmarking a local program vs an AWS hosted service to claim you’re faster than Redis?

Reads are served locally but all writes go to some hosted cloud service?

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Re:IKV: embedded key-value store, 100x faster than Redis by pushkarg on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:23PM (#39488864)
The benchmark highlights the value prop to the end user who can now use a "local program" ie an embedded database and get the perf wins over Redis - without worrying about data management (backups/replication/what-not).

Read path don't invoke any RPCs (even on startup or a cache miss). Writes need RPCs - since they have to be propagated to the (many) readers.

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