Redis - so much more than I thought it was | devops.lol

### 2 - all the data types you need in one place Redis is a NoSQL database. This means you won’t get the old SQL transactions, tables, foreign and unique key-contraints, etc. I was ‘raised’ as a developer in a time where SQL was the only option, so we did everything with it. While it is convenient you don’t have to think about data consistency in your code, there are serious drawbacks as well, mostly in terms of speed, data size, and scalability. When I reflect on old projects, I wonder how often I really needed that absolute - stop the world - level of forced consistency in the database layer.