Redis - The Hacker's Database
Google Tech Talk
December 2, 2010
Presented by Amir Salihefendic.
ABSTRACT
A presentation on Redis, a relatively new database with rich datatypes, lots of features and an amazing performance. The presentation will cover following things:
What Redis is and how it compares to other databases such as BigTable or MySQL
How Plurk is using Redis to store millions of timelines and do billions of operations on these timelines without much hardware
How Redis can be used in a lot of creative ways, such as creating a high-performance graph database or a high-performance queue
The distributed future of Redis (scaling Redis to thousands of machines)
Amir Salihefendic is a co-founder and lead developer of Plurk, a social network that's highly popular in Taiwan and other parts of Asia.