output

redis elapsed:  0.00105381011963
1234567890
pg elapsed:     0.00156402587891
1234567890

read.py

import time
from redis import Redis

r = Redis()
s1 = time.time()
c = r.execute_command("get", "test")
s2 = time.time()
print "redis elapsed: ", s2-s1
print c[:10]

from psycopg2 import connect

conn = connect("dbname=fuse_test user=bill")
cur = conn.cursor()
s1 = time.time()
cur.execute("SELECT value FROM metrics")
c = cur.fetchone()
s2 = time.time()
print "pg elapsed: ", s2-s1
print c[0][:10]