Tidis - Redis protocol on top of TiKV

I am actually surprised that given today&#x27;s wide availability of cloud service, new low-level storage softwares are still getting invented.<p>Questions to fellow HNers: - If you need to deploy such software for your business, was it because optimizing GCP&#x2F;AWS is not cost-effective or the same level of performance is not possible on public cloud?

I think that&#x27;s a good example of the different use-cases where Go and Rust excel at: The front-end (Tidis), which offers a lot of feature but little complexity, is written in Go, and the back-end(TiKV), where complex stuff is done and performance must be immaculate, is in Rust.

Are there docs or examples of how to use this somewhere? I love Redis and I love using Go so I would be interested in trying this out for hobby projects and it would be helpful to have some documentation&#x2F;examples.

&gt;This repo is WIP now and has lots of work to do, and for test only.<p>Cool project though.

Benchmarks please?

Redis has been called a &quot;data structure server&quot;.<p>Isn&#x27;t that what a database is?<p>Is there anything fundamentally better about Redis than say, a single connection to Postgres?<p>Except with Postgres you would be allowed many concurrent connections and greater throughput, while having the same external behavior thanks to transaction serializability. It&#x27;s as if the operations got applied by a single thread in a defined order, but in reality can be parallelized. Redis cannot do that intelligently.<p>I use Redis occasionally because it&#x27;s a very simple system and it&#x27;s easy, and has been micro-optimized very well. I don&#x27;t think it necessarily contains any good computer science ideas. Am I wrong here?<p>Tidis is more evidence that Redis&#x27;s single threaded design leaves a ton on the table.