Nice benchmarks. Hopefully some benevolent soul with more spare time than I can pitch in on threadsafe CFFI

this has been debunked in these comments somewhere on here. people love their castle stairs on this site.

y-cruncher is the king of stress testing

Can I use PyMutex from my own Python code?

No, it wouldn’t make sense to. Use threading.Lock for that. PyMutex is available in the CPython C API.

I was there, this is true.

javascript refugee?

if we're sticking with this binary thing then you get another vote for green

turquoise is green and i'll die on this hill

Redis is fast too, but I don't go around comparing it to a proper database =/

/dev/null scales better than all of them

/dev/null : the optimal solution for write-only workloads

It's eventually consistent as well, so same guarantees as MongoDB in that regard.

And it massively improves backup times (let alone, restores)

But is it web-scale?

"Mongo DB Is Web Scale" is pretty entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1636198 linked to the original platform, which sadly shut down after a few years.)

Longbottom is the serious version, before that it was Stretcharse.