redis

Oh what a joy it is to work with redis (as opposed to RAMCloud). It compiles easily and quickly, runs all tests successfully, is within a factor of 2x on TCP/IP (according to RAMCloud site), and is now available in cluster mode for large databases and fault tolerance. Why wouldn't we use it?

Cluster redis setup and execution requires Ruby and a redis gem. Ryan installed this on Darwin but it's use is likely to be fragile into the future (version changes). Someone should figure out how to use RVM and install gems locally (in their private user directory) to avoid this.