Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Garnet can work with existing Redis clients.

Speaks RESP and supports a large part of the Redis commands.

Language: C#
Licence: MIT
Stars: 12k
Latest: v2.2.11
Last push: 2026-11-12

PikiwiDB Partial

Pikiwidb is a Redis-Compatible database developed by Qihoo's infrastructure team.

Speaks the Redis protocol and keeps data on disk in RocksDB, for datasets larger than memory.

Language: C++
Licence: BSD-3-Clause
Stars: 6.1k
Latest: v4.0.4
Last push: 2026-10-16

Apache Kvrocks Partial

Apache Kvrocks is a distributed key value NoSQL database that uses RocksDB as storage engine and is compatible with Redis protocol.

Redis protocol on top of RocksDB, keeping data on disk rather than in memory.

Language: C++
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 4.5k
Latest: v2.17.0
Last push: 2026-11-11

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For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine.

CIn-memory key-value storesOther

Owner: Redis organisation
Stars: 77k
Forks: 25k
Latest: 8.10.3
Last push: 2026-11-12
Terms: Open source
Self-hosted: Yes
Deploy with: Container image, OS packages
Created: 2009, 17 years ago
Release cadence: about 1 day between releases
Active contributors: 58 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days
Stars over 32 days: 2026-10-12 76,7392026-11-12 77,463

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