Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype
Maybe slightly off-topic but I've always struggled to understand the appeal of key-value stores like Redis and DynamoDB. I tried using it once as a substitute for shared memory in an embedded device, but you lose a lot of information (like type) and it seems like you can't represent or query complex data structures like nested structs without serializing it out to some data format first and then storing <i>that</i> in in the store (but at that point it's starting to get slow/complex and you can't easily examine what's in the database and so it's easier to keep using shared memory).<p>But clearly I'm missing something because everybody loves them and uses them. Is this a technology I would only use when building websites at scale or something?