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If you're running OS X, you will need xcode installed for building the redis binary. Also you'll need to have opened xcode at least once for it to properly expose the c compiler for node-gyp to work.
I am on OSX (Lion), and I do have xcode tools installed - /usr/bin/xcodebuild is present, but it seems that node-gyp is looking for /usr/bin/usr/bin/xcodebuild for some reason. Solution is to run:
sudo xcode-select -switch /
This caused freezes the first time I tried it but after a reboot, running npm install worked flawlessly.
Waterline is a new kind of storage and retrieval engine. It provides a uniform API for accessing stuff from different kinds of databases, protocols, and 3rd party APIs. That means you write the same code to get users, whether they live in mySQL, LDAP, MongoDB, or Facebook.
It is also the ORM layer for the Sails framework.
To learn more visit the project on GitHub.
Until further benchmarking can prove its benefit, the headache of having to have a compiler installed for the C binding isn't worth it. An optional dependency would also be another valid approach.