Amazon MemoryDB: A Fast and Durable Memory-First Cloud Database, by six AWS engineers, in SIGMOD 2024. AWS hacked up Redis (I mean this respectfully) to produce a Redis-compatible database-as-a-service called MemoryDB, with better durability and consistency. Here’s a video of my presentation to the DistSys Reading Group, and a written review of the paper below. --- The Problem It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me. Redis is popular because it’s fast and supports fairly powerful data struc...
