I recently had to help some developer that was stuck trying to have mongodb lock a resource and started using redis+redshift  to prevent multiple webserver from updating a document in parallel (mongodb basic locking features weren&#x27;t enough in his case).<p>As a RDBMS aficionado, that whole stack made me puke, BUT, to all the really smart people here having a PHD in distributed systems, please : try to help antirez build something that works. Many developers are trying to reach the shore of consistent systems after having been lost in the ocean of &quot;NoSQL is great for everything&quot;.<p>Note : and i&#x27;m not saying redis is to blame here. It&#x27;s obviously a great software. It&#x27;s mostly the users that are to blame in this case.