Could CockroachDB Ever Replace Redis? A Flex Fridays Experiment

1 · CockroachDB · Feb. 3, 2016, 4:47 p.m.
The goal of CockroachDB is to “make data easy,” and while it seems like a stretch now, we eventually want CockroachDB to be able to act as the entire state layer for web applications. We are currently addressing the SQL layer, and a full-text search like ElasticSearch is somewhere ahead on the product horizon. Since Cockroach Labs has a Flex Fridays policy for work on experimental projects, I decided to use mine to experiment with implementing the Redis protocol on top of CockroachDB, attempting...