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fillky
fillky

Reputation: 581

Is Redis DB suitable for desktop application?

I am working on simple desktop application in LUA. This application is extracting software artifacts and storing them to key-value database in graphs structures. I am exploring which db will be better to use, considering tokyo cabinet and redis. But redis is server based db, so my question is if it is suitable for application like that. Or point me of some better solution. Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2108

Answers (2)

Jain Rachit Kumar
Jain Rachit Kumar

Reputation: 4277

Is't Redis more suitable for high performance applications and not for standalone desktop applications?

Yes , it is , but it can also serve well for stand alone desktop application.I have used redis for in pretty much both scenario's and I am happy in both the cases.

Here, I can recommend you to look for ease of integration and for the one which gives you more functionalities and meet your expectations more closely.

Upvotes: 4

RGAT
RGAT

Reputation: 486

I understand that you want your desktop app to store to key-value database. I will vote for redis since most developers used them instead of tokyo but I could be wrong.

In terms of practice, If you want key-value store database use Redis since the database itself is focused on key-value storage and it already have networking capabilities and scalability.

The downside will probably be in hardware specs for redis. You will have to code thinking of the minimum memory requirement and limiting the stuffs you are storing into the RAM as much as possible. However, nowadays memories are getting bigger, better and cheaper.

In Tokyo Cabinet it can process larger stuffs than the memory itself. Which is why I think that you have considered it due to that fact.

Even if Tokyo has better memory management, I will still go for Redis.

Upvotes: 3

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