Re: Redis 16 times faster than Postgres?

[Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Redis is a in memory database so I would except it to be always much faster..

On Mon., 30 Sep. 2019, 7:42 am Colin 't Hart, <colinthart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Can someone take a look at this blog post?

https://www.peterbe.com/plog/redis-vs-postgres-blob-of-json

Can Redis really be 16 times faster than Postgres? Surely Postgres can get closer to the raw speed of the hardware than 1 order of magnitude?

Thanks,

Colin