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Redis vs Zookeeper

It seems silly to compare these two servers considering that they're meant for very different things. But if you think about it, they can do lots of similar things: store configuration data, ...
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How would you use Redis for Exception Handling?

I was reading this transcript of an interview with a GitHub developer and he was describing how they use Redis: Q: You mentioned using Redis. How do you use that? A: We use Redis for exception ...
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Querying key/value store

I don't know whether this question is reasonably answerable (and therefore will be closed), but I will take my chances: What are the possible problems (and solutions), one might encounter, when ...
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In-memory DB to perform intersects on set slices

I have a specific programming need where I need to efficiently store large sorted sets in memory, query them for ranges, and intersect them against other sets that are also queried for ranged. I am ...
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Semi-securely storing data in a remote key-value store, ensuring minimal data corruption/tampering

I'm bashing around a few ideas for storing usage data (similar to google analytics) for some Javascript products that we are working on. Unfortunately as yet we don't quite know 100% what data we ...
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Redis strategy for activity log data

Our application requires an activity log of actions that a user has done. For example: 3/19/2013 ------------- 9:37 AM Chuck Norris scrapped 3 robots. 9:15 AM Chuck Norris fought 3 robots. ...
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2 Servers 1 Database - Can I use Redis?

Ok I have a couple of questions here. First let me give you some background information. I'm starting a project where I have a node.js server running my application and my website running on another ...
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Why would I use Redis? [closed]

I am currently using Node, Express and MongoDB (with Mongoose) as a datastore, I hear Redis is a persistant Memcached, but why would I use this? Is Memcached better if I'm using Mongo? What's its ...
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Does Redis work on Windows Phone? [closed]

I want a Redis style key/value storage engine for my Windows Phone 7 development. So far I've been rolling my own, using Isolated File Storage, but surely this is a previously solved problem? If ...