Command-line clients like psql and the MySQL shell handle a quick query fine, but they start to strain once a Linux VPS admin is juggling more than one database engine, or wants to browse table structures and query history without re-learning another tool's dialect for every server. SQL Workbench/J exists for exactly …

A caching layer is one of those pieces of a VPS stack that people install once and stop thinking about — until the license under which it ships changes and suddenly matters again. That's exactly what happened with Redis, and it's why anyone provisioning a new Linux VPS for a session store, a queue backend, or a query …