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Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Garnet can work with existing Redis clients.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 2 stories, 17 comments · first 2024-03-19 · latest 2026-10-13

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  1. Github: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet Competitors: 1. DragonflyDB: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly 2. Lavik: https://github.com/eloqdata/lavik DragonflyDB is famous for 4 millions QPS on single node. While Lavik focus on…
    comment by hubertzhang · 2026-10-13 · in Garnet: KV store for agent, best paper VLDB 2026
  2. …worked on. (not to diminish his many co-authors 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
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    Garnet – A remote cache-store from Microsoft Research
    story by cyanf · 2025-09-21 · 0 comments
  4. I don't see how it's worse? https://github.com/microsoft/garnet/blob/main/LICENSE It's MIT licensed?
    comment by jayofdoom · 2025-05-01 · in Redis is open source again
  5. …implemented mostly in C#. It supports the RESP wire protocol from Redis for ease of compatibility. https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
    comment by giancarlostoro · 2025-05-01 · in Redis is open source again
  6. Microsoft created a managed, wire-compatible alternative: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
    comment by thom · 2025-02-09 · in We are destroying software
  7. Microsoft also last year released their own Redis-client-compatible key-value store, Garnet: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
    comment by riverdweller · 2024-12-11 · in From where I left
  8. We've switched to https://github.com/microsoft/Garnet and been very happy
    comment by davidgl · 2024-11-21 · in The Fastest Redis Ever
  9. How does valkey compare with garnet? https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
    comment by halfcat · 2024-09-21 · in Redis users considering alternatives after licensing move
  10. …with writing a browser in complexity) Bitwarden (server): https://github.com/bitwarden Garnet: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet (likely the fastest Redis implementation) Stride3D: https://github.com/stride3d/stride Godot (offers C# as…
    comment by neonsunset · 2024-08-10 · in Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall
  11. …more used than clickhouse. C# is also fine for this, just way less popular. Recently ms put out https://github.com/microsoft/Garnet when the redis debacle happened. The Apache project has helped put out quite a few large infra projects,…
    comment by banashark · 2024-08-07 · in Official proposal for Type Unions in C#
  12. …and you can do way better by further simplification, 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
  13. Not really that exciting, Microsoft was already putting efforts into https://github.com/microsoft/garnet instead
    comment by Maxious · 2024-04-01 · in Why AWS, Google and Oracle Are Backing the Valkey Redis Fork
  14. …probably arrive at some point). Either way you can see contributions to add more commands here: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet/pulls?q=is%3Apr+add+comm... With that said, I'm slightly skeptical of/worried about Garnet but the reason…
    comment by neonsunset · 2024-03-29 · in The race to replace Redis
  15. Garnet is MIT licensed. See: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
    comment by BartjeD · 2024-03-29 · in The race to replace Redis
  16. Microsoft has its own redis alternative: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
    comment by BartjeD · 2024-03-29 · in The race to replace Redis
  17. From HN a few days ago: https://github.com/microsoft/Garnet A Microsoft Research, open source, performant, almost RESP compatible alternative (according to them)
    comment by s-ta · 2024-03-29 · in The race to replace Redis
  18. At the same time Microsoft releases Garnet: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet Good timing.
    comment by nicce · 2024-03-21 · in Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
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    Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research
    story by saganus · 2024-03-19 · 118 comments