Lua Scripting in Redis 2.6
The top comments on Hacker News about Redis 2.6 RC are about Lua scripting.
Lua scripting! Once people figure out what Redis’ Lua scripting is good for, and it gets in a stable release, it’s going to set the world on fire. In a good way.
When one of the services I work on was having huge performance problems, and nothing I did seemed to make it fast enough, I realized that the main data-manipulation logic — previously a combination of Python and SQL — could be rewritten as a Lua script in Redis. I learned the basics of Lua in about an hour, migrated the data over to Redis, made the necessary changes to the code, and everything worked beautifully. Months of crippling speed problems vanished in a single long day.
Redis 2.6 saved my ass. Now, when I need to store data, it’s always one of the first things to come to mind, since I know I can count on it to be fast, solid, and flexible enough to do all sorts of things.
Going through myNoSQL archives, the first mention of Lua scripting support in Redis is from May 2nd, 2011. Salvatore Sanfilippo already wrote of some advanced functionality that would be possible using it, but I expect many more ideas to come out once Redis 2.6 is released.
Original title and link: Lua Scripting in Redis 2.6 (©myNoSQL)
