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kvrocks

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

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

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2019-08-19 06:23:13 UTC to 2026-10-19 15:39:44 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 6 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC660
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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> Redis (and memcache) are memory caches and should be treated like that If you haven't come across Kvrocks yet, it may be worth a look: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks https://kvrocks.apache.org/ . It's a database with a Redis-compatible wire protocol, but the database is stored on disk. This means your working set is not limited by RAM and can be a few orders of magnitude larger! On modern SSDs this is still very fast. I think it improves the durability story as well. But the big win is the orders of magnitude larger database space. As I've been improving my side project https://totalrealreturns.com/ recently I've ended up using both Redis and Kvrocks together. Redis is great for small global state that needs to be super fast. Kvrocks is great for larger bulk data storage (large precomputed datasets), but also supports a lot of the Re
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In Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements
Sorry if somewhat off-topic, but might help with getting more users. Redis is actually good enough and easy to install for most projects, but it has downside that it's "memory-only" (needs to fit in ram), and if you're in a tight container/vm – you'd better not rely on it solely. So, there's another project – called kvrocks https://github.com/apache/kvrocks , which is for people which don't need in-memory perf of redis but would like to use its protocol and be still very performant. However, its devs never packaged a release in deb and other formats. So, if you were to implement something similar ^ which will implement the protocol, have ability to grow on disk, and be available in distro repos (ideally) – would definitely hold a niche of many little projects which benefit from redis-like thing I've done.
In Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig
Not affiliated (not my first comment about this) but we are using KVRocks[1] for now at work, which is based on RocksDB by Meta and it works nicely. Developers are nice and reactive and the Redis commands support is large. We picked this project because of our RAM usage that was exploding with Redis. The only downside for us right now is the Kubernetes support. There is an operator and a controller being made but no Helm Chart yet to deploy Kvrocks with master and replicas easily. That will be awesome. [1]: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks
In Redis' license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
Why does the fix work like that - only checking for this one scenario when you decrement by type max? [1] In Solidity, where it's a serious security risk, before the language performed overflow checks itself, library authors would perform the arithmetic operation and then e.g. check if the result is larger than the original value in the case of a positive subtrahend [2]. [1] https://github.com/apache/kvrocks/pull/1581/commits/dc5140dd... [2] https://github.com/KingdomStudiosIO/contracts/blob/51873b574...
In The race to replace Redis
Another under the radar Apache project I've found myself using is Apache KvRocks https://github.com/apache/kvrocks It's a Redis compatible database on top of RocksDB, so unlike Redis it uses the disk instead of RAM, but you can control how much data is cached in RAM, obviously Kvrocks will be slower than Redis for uncached data. Useful in situations where you want a KV data store that isn't limited by your memory specs but is compatible with everything that speaks Redis.
In Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about

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