KV

[tomByrer]

Have plans for some sort of simple Key-Value database? I guess I could use SQLite as a KV, but could there be a performance gain if I used some serverless KV?

For some reason I'm building an app targeting KV, even though I have more experience with SQL....

[stevekrouse]

We don't have plans for a simple key-value database. Redis is pretty good for that and Serverless SQLite (Turso, in our case) is really fast, so personally I'd do that.

Of course there's Deno KV which is awesome, but we don't feel compelled to add to our API surface area for something that's so easy to replicate in SQLite.

I made a performance little comparison for you:

Apparently Upstash Redis sets slower but reads faster than Turso SQLite.

https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse/upstashEx (requires an upstash account)
https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse/sqliteKV (you should be able to just fork and run this)

However it's not entirely an apples-to-apples comparison because Turso is in Chicago which is closer to our Val Town servers in Ohio. Redis doesn't have a midwest datacenter so it's in Virgina in the above test.