The “why” is missing an important one: put less load on your primary DB for frequent gets. If you can replace your cache with your primary DB then ya you probably don’t need a cache. Just fix indexing, data normalization, and/or access patterns.
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The “why” is missing an important one: put less load on your primary DB for frequent gets. If you can replace your cache with your primary DB then ya you probably don’t need a cache. Just fix indexing, data normalization, and/or access patterns.