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Tendis
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Tencent / Tendis

Tendis

Tendis is a high-performance distributed storage system fully compatible with the Redis protocol.

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What it is

Tendis is a high-performance distributed storage system fully compatible with the Redis protocol.

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HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-12-24 08:10:51 UTC to 2023-10-24 14:50:42 UTC.

012342020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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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
hardwaresofton·Apr 28, 2021
Does anyone have any experience with these other Redis clones? I need to write a benchmark on these someday (the outline for the blog post is already written), but have restricted my yak shaving recently: - https://github.com/Tencent/Tendis - https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite On a separate note, was FLASH (as in "flash memory") supposed to be an acronym? I've never seen people treat it as an acronym before.
In KeyDB CEO Interview: Getting into YC with a Fork of Redis

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