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taligent on Aug 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What 10gen nailed with MongoDB

Redis has no clustering (yet) so is best used when your data is transient and you are able to repopulate.

j-kidd on Aug 30, 2012 [–]

I have no experience with Redis or MongoDB, but your statement is only true if the storage layer is transient. Some of us use servers that don't go away upon shutdown, backed by a SAN.

mh- on Aug 30, 2012 | [–]

Have you tested how long it would take your redis instance to be usable again after it finishes replaying the commitlog (AOF)?

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