Re:JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top o...
by staticassertion on Saturday January 17, 2026 @11:48AM
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> With the wal redis runs with perfectly reasonable performance. Of course you're not going to have the performance of an in-memory only DB if you're flushing to disk on every write.
But that's not what gets benchmarked against.
> You'll never get that kind of performance with other databases because they intentionally don't give you that granularity.
Okay but you also won't get horizontal scaling while maintaining consistency in Redis.
> The metadata of the filesystem isn't the performance bottleneck in most cases.
Okay, but they do show that other metadata stores are 2-4x slower than Redis, so it would be great to see whole-system benchmarks that use those.
But that's not what gets benchmarked against.
> You'll never get that kind of performance with other databases because they intentionally don't give you that granularity.
Okay but you also won't get horizontal scaling while maintaining consistency in Redis.
> The metadata of the filesystem isn't the performance bottleneck in most cases.
Okay, but they do show that other metadata stores are 2-4x slower than Redis, so it would be great to see whole-system benchmarks that use those.