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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.

27 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 10 stories, 17 comments · first 2019-08-19 · latest 2026-10-19

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  1. How does this compare and benchmark with https://github.com/apache/kvrocks
    comment by syepes · 2026-10-19 · in Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache
  2. …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…
    comment by compumike · 2026-06-05 · in Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements
  3. …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…
    comment by k_bx · 2025-09-20 · in Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig
  4. The GitHub Readme seems easier to understand: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks?tab=readme-ov-file
    comment by williamstein · 2025-01-23 · in Kvrocks: Redis-compatible distributed key value NoSQL database
  5. …DragonflyDB (not open source, BuSL-1.1) with more performance https://github.com/apache/kvrocks Apache Kvrocks (Apache-2.0) uses disk-based NoSQL database to lower memory usage
    comment by remram · 2025-01-21 · in Kronotop: Redis-compatible, transactional document store backed by FoundationDB
  6. …the memory limitations of Redis and the license delirium ;-) [1] https://kvrocks.apache.org/ [2] https://github.com/apache/kvrocks
    comment by adulau · 2025-01-21 · in Kronotop: Redis-compatible, transactional document store backed by FoundationDB
  7. …missing for 3 years now. I used to recommend SSDB, but now there's better alternatives available: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks https://github.com/sabledb-io/sabledb
    comment by welder · 2024-04-14 · in Redis re-implemented with SQLite
  8. How does it compare to Kvrocks, which use RocksDB as the storage backend too? https://github.com/apache/kvrocks/
    comment by hivacruz · 2024-04-04 · in SableDb – Fast, persistent database supporting Redis API
  9. …but no Helm Chart yet to deploy Kvrocks with master and replicas easily. That will be awesome. [1]: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks
    comment by hivacruz · 2024-04-02 · in Redis' license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
  10. …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...
    comment by ryanjshaw · 2024-03-29 · in The race to replace Redis
  11. And here is an interesting conversation when Binbin came to the Kvrocks community: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks/pull/1581#issuecomment-163... * Me: @enjoy-binbin Out of curiosity, do you have a fuzzer to test out Kvrocks? Your recent…
    comment by tison · 2024-03-29 · in The race to replace Redis
  12. …nearly 25% of the commits to the newer Redis version. You can find his contributor for both at: * https://github.com/apache/kvrocks/graphs/contributors * https://github.com/redis/redis/graphs/contributors
    comment by tison · 2024-03-28 · in The race to replace Redis
  13. …is another option. Not a fork but API-compatible reimplementation. https://github.com/apache/kvrocks is another, built on RocksDB, with different tradeoff (availability/durability, clustered)
    comment by remram · 2024-03-22 · in Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis
  14. 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…
    comment by PlutoIsAPlanet · 2023-12-20 · in Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about
  15. …of "Redis protocol compatible" databases that are persistence-oriented. KVRocks: Backed by RocksDB https://github.com/apache/kvrocks Tendis: Backed by RocksDB https://github.com/Tencent/Tendis Tidis: Distributed, backed by TiKV…
    comment by nbf_1995 · 2023-10-24 · in Redis as a database (2021)
  16. …accepted in the Apache foundation. It is based on RocksDB and works quite nicely for us. [1]: https://github.com/apache/kvrocks
    comment by hivacruz · 2023-10-19 · in In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk
  17. There’s Kvrocks. It uses the Redis protocol and it’s built on RocksDB https://github.com/apache/kvrocks
    comment by javierhonduco · 2023-10-16 · in Ask HN: Why are there no open source NVMe-native key value stores in 2023?