MySQL is 15-20% faster than Redis for hot key/value lookups

From TFA:

> So: don’t treat this as a fully general Redis/MySQL benchmark. It really, really isn’t.

> I’ll repeat this one more time, so drive-by commenters look silly: this is a benchmark of our specific use case and no other.

This title is, while technically correct, highly misleading. Also needs a 2015.

I thought handlersocket was like 2x faster?

It was two years ago, man