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> Data is persisted in write-optimized disk storage. Consistency checking is configurable between highest performance caching and ACID transactions.

seems pretty different to redis. I don't think Redis does ACID transactions.

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Redis is single-threaded, so everything it does on a per-node basis is implicitly atomic. You can also force the single thread to handle a block of commands from a single socket at once by using MULTI (otherwise commands can be interleaved with other commands from other sockets).

It's not guaranteed to be atomic in failure conditions. Also, the biggest difference between Redis and Geode would be the "distributed" part, which involves maintaining these guarantees across a cluster of machines (which Redis demonstratingly doesn't do).

That's pretty hand-wavey. All databases can be made to lose all guarantees under failure conditions.

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