Cool project.

So lock-free single threaded with event-loops DBs should in most cases (when implemented properly) outperform the multi-threaded DBs with shared locks in a high contention & latency environment.

But you claim Lux is more performant than Redis & Valkey, I have no idea on the internals of Lux or the benchmark environment to reject your claims. As more people try it in real workloads, we'll know the actual performance of Lux.

First thing to do is try it out in a hobby project see how it works out!

The ease of "appearance of value" today is the uncanny valley for software. The repo looks professionally organized, you can PAY for it, the preliminary benchmarks are looking good. Overlooked are the testing, validation, backup, failure recovery, practical behaviors, and most importantly: honesty.

These projects would get more love if it was declared up front that they were heavily AI generated projects and shouldn't be used in production since it has the air of practical utility.

It's probably a great drop-in replacement for Redis for a raspberry pi project that has low stakes. The smaller 1MB disk footprint and the performance difference could be impactful. Personally, I wouldn't be using this in production for at least a few years after hobbyists have their go at revealing its hidden near-guaranteed flaws.

At least I can broach TTL issues and gather reasonable insight on Redis vs Elasticache nuance based on the thousands who have encountered the issues.