I will perform the test on the speed of Lua-jit, but I wrote redis-v8 not for speed. The fact that the V8 was faster than Lua (regular) was a surprise for me.
Personally I do not like LUA, I do not force anyone to use JS. My opinion is that JavaScript is a powerful and handy, but again, this is only my opinion.
I started this project because javascript is more convenient and easier to teach (everyone knows). The fact that the V8 found in 10(!) Times faster than the native commands even through pipelining, it was found out only later. And as I said, none of my friends can not use LUA to do something serious, but easy to work with javascript. Most of what I've done is independent of the language I use a different approach to scripting the database.
Now cron can do directly in the database. The results you can obtain using REST request (with gzip is very less traffic). On the javascript there is a huge amount of libraries, such as Crypto, if desired, there will be templates to insert. When I finish the beta, it will be possible to write map / reduce function on the clusters. The differences will be very much.
Nope, in redis v8 is faster, just because i have optimised GET/SET/INCR commands, and lua use a regular connection to DB like any other client, so in my case is no need to parse/encode redis format. And i can optimise any other redis functions for v8.
Yep, you are absolutely right. Every one can do that, no needs to be a genius NoSQL programmer or something =), if you want to migrate from SQL solutions, i think redis-v8 can help.
http://redis-v8.com/norobots.txt , i have not finished a website... This awesome because of speed, easy usage, traffic less, currently a make a fully REST service with gzip...
Hey guys, i am a author, as you can see project in alpha state... Everything is working, but i need some time for translate the docs/tutorials, with my english this can take a lot of time... If some one can help me with it, i will be happy.