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Fast persistent recoverable log and key-value store + cache, in C# and C++.

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 12 comments · first 2018-08-17 · latest 2026-01-28

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  1. …and contributors) Some of his other projects: [0] https://github.com/microsoft/garnet [1] https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER [2] https://github.com/microsoft/Trill
    comment by algorithmsRcool · 2026-01-28 · in Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index
  2. …that data is actually written and stays written is rather difficult', immediately reminded me of https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER (its not written in Go though), which is basically dealing with just that outlet ( except I think the KV…
    comment by kittiepryde · 2024-05-29 · in Hello World, Simple Event Broker
  3. …but it already does the job well enough. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/garnet [1] https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER
    comment by neonsunset · 2024-04-10 · in A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go
  4. …which means it has virtually no chance of being anywhere near as performant as a lock-free log. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER
    comment by jiggawatts · 2022-11-07 · in LiteDB: A .NET embedded NoSQL database
  5. …offs. It’s written in C++ and another clone in C# from them https://microsoft.github.io/FASTER/ https://github.com/Microsoft/FASTER/wiki/Performance-of-FAST... https://microsoft.github.io/FASTER/
    comment by nikolqy · 2022-02-02 · in Ask HN: Why didn't Microsoft use C# to rewrite Minecraft?
  6. A vaguely similar project that might be of interest is: https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER It's also an "unbundled" low-level component that one could use as the foundation for a database engine or whatever. According to Microsoft, FASTER…
    comment by jiggawatts · 2021-10-03 · in FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store
  7. …could find. There is https://github.com/tikv/tikv which uses rocksdb with raft. and there is faster https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER/ .
    comment by xfer · 2021-08-12 · in Event Sourcing (2005)
  8. FTA, https://github.com/Microsoft/FASTER/wiki/Performance-of-FAST...
    comment by 9wzYQbTYsAIc · 2021-01-12 · in Faster A fast concurrent persistent key-value store and log, in C# and C++
  9. src is in native https://github.com/Microsoft/FASTER/tree/master/cs/src/nativ... Looks like some file IO functions and __rdtsc
    comment by benaadams · 2018-08-18 · in Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research
  10. Here is the relevant metadata: https://github.com/Microsoft/FASTER/blob/master/cs/src/core/... Should be usable in NetCoreApp 2.0 and up, or .NET full framework 4.6 and up. In other words, yes, it will work on recent versions of NetCore…
    comment by SideburnsOfDoom · 2018-08-18 · in Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research
  11. This. Somebody already filled an issue https://github.com/Microsoft/FASTER/issues/2
    comment by imhoguy · 2018-08-18 · in Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research
  12. …code [0], but that probably means they've made some sort of improvement post-publications. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/FASTER/blob/master/cc/src/core/...
    comment by utopcell · 2018-08-18 · in Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research