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Skyhook was a Redis API compatible gateway to Aerospike Database

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Skyhook was a Redis API compatible gateway to Aerospike Database

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sitkack·Aug 20, 2025

another wonderful option with AGPL https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-server and for the redis interface https://github.com/aerospike-community/skyhook aerospike also has transaction support and strong session consistency

In EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3)

hardwaresofton·Jul 16, 2022

I thought you'd never ask: - KeyDB (https://keydb.dev) - Pelican Cache (https://www.pelikan.io/) - Tendis (https://github.com/Tencent/Tendis) - SSDB (https://github.com/ideawu/ssdb) - Dynomite (https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite/) - Dragonfly (https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly) - Skytable (https://github.com/skytable/skytable) - Tidis (https://github.com/yongman/tidis) - Anna (https://github.com/hydro-project/anna) - Skyhook (https://github.com/aerospike/skyhook) And some which are kinda dead but still interesting -- redis is the kind of workload that does actually become feature complete so these are still usable in my mind though maybe not first choice: - ledisdb (https://github.com/ledisdb/ledisdb) - Codis (https://github.com/CodisLabs/codis) - xcodis (https://github.com/ledisdb/xcodis) I'm planning on doing a comparison with t

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hese at some point, because they're fascinating (all these projects go off in subtly different directions, I'll spare you the details), but here's a recent comparison someone else did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796311 Basically, redis compatibility is like step 1 for any KVS that wants to seem at least a little usable/real-world-focused so you get so many cool entrants. I don't really personally keep up with redis for the stream use-case -- it's a great use for redis but that doesn't really make/break for me usually.

In I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works

seg_lol·Aug 20, 2021

I'd much rather use OSS like Aerospike or ScyllaDB for this workload and still retain some agency over my deployment. Getting a system like this right is super hard, and not being OSS, you are at the mercy of the cloud provider to fix issues. Aerospike recently released their own Redis protocol proxy for Redis [1]. Scylla has their own nascent Redis api driver [2], would love to get folks feedback on it. [1] https://github.com/aerospike/skyhook [2] https://siddharthc.medium.com/redis-on-nvme-with-scylladb-5e...

In Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable Database