I really liked Redis for a long time. Simple, fast data-structures in-memory. That's it. Along the way there have been some nice enhancements like Lua, which solves a lot of the atomicity issues. But somewhere after 4.0 I feel they have lost their way. First they saw all the attention Kafka/event-stuff was receiving, so they baked-in this monstrous, complicated, stateful streams feature. Now we have SSL (do people really expose Redis on the internet??), ACLs, cluster stuff, and most relevant to me a new wire protocol.
To my thinking, Redis fit very well in the "lightweight linux thing" category. It seems they aspire to be enterprise software, and this may be a good move for Redis-the-Business, but it's not good for users like me who just want simple in-memory data-structures and as little state as possible. Forcing a new protocol that adds very little value (in my opinion) also seems like a great way to alienate your users.
I really liked Redis for a long time. Simple, fast data-structures in-memory. That's it. Along the way there have been some nice enhancements like Lua, which solves a lot of the atomicity issues. But somewhere after 4.0 I feel they have lost their way. First they saw all the attention Kafka/event-stuff was receiving, so they baked-in this monstrous, complicated, stateful streams feature. Now we have SSL (do people really expose Redis on the internet??), ACLs, cluster stuff, and most relevant to me a new wire protocol.
To my thinking, Redis fit very well in the "lightweight linux thing" category. It seems they aspire to be enterprise software, and this may be a good move for Redis-the-Business, but it's not good for users like me who just want simple in-memory data-structures and as little state as possible. Forcing a new protocol that adds very little value (in my opinion) also seems like a great way to alienate your users.