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Redis is fully durable if you use append-only files with the "appendfsync always" option set. http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-persistence-demystifie...


Durable != ACID

You can still create an inconsistent state in Redis easily, even it persists well.


As far as I know, consistency in ACID just means that the database enforces any constraints that have been defined. Since redis doesn't allow constraints to be defined, doesn't that technically make it consistent, in a vacuous sort of way?

You could also view redis's data types as a form of constraint. Using a set instead of a list achieves the same purpose as using UNIQUE in SQL.




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