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Mobile Apps. FrontEnd Frameworks. PHP Frameworks. Others. Patterns. Google. Formspider. A case study: Design and implementation of a simple Twitter clone using only the Redis key-value store as database and PHP — Redis 2.2.3 documentation. In this article I’ll explain the design and the implementation of a simple clone of Twitter written using PHP and Redis as only database.

A case study: Design and implementation of a simple Twitter clone using only the Redis key-value store as database and PHP — Redis 2.2.3 documentation

The programming community uses to look at key-value stores like special databases that can’t be used as drop in replacement for a relational database for the development of web applications. This article will try to prove the contrary. Our Twitter clone, called Retwis, is structurally simple, has very good performances, and can be distributed among N web servers and M Redis servers with very little efforts. You can find the source code here.