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24 alternatives to HPKV - A Real-Time KV Store

6x faster than Redis with disk persistence

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

  1. 1AB

    we've been working on a KV store for the past year or so which is 2-6x faster than Redis (benchmark link below) yet disk persisted! so you get the speed of in-memory KV stores but with disk persistence. To achieve this we've created our custom filesystem that is optimized for our special usecase and we're doing smart batching for writes and predictive fetching for reads. In addition to basic operations, it also provides atomic inc/dec, atomic json patch, range scans and a unique key monitoring mechanism (pub-sub) over WebSockets which essentially allows you to receive notification on…

    2025 · hpkv.io · its alternatives →

  2. 2ES

    We're thrilled to unveil EloqKV, a lightning-fast distributed key-value store with a Redis-compatible API. Built on a new database architecture called the Data Substrate, EloqKV brings significant innovations to database design. Here’s the unique features that makes it stand out: - Flexible Deployment: Run it as a single-node in-memory KV cache, a larger-than-memory database or scale to a highly available, distributed transactional database with ease. - High Performance: Achieves performance levels comparable to top in-memory databases like Redis and DragonflyDB, while significantly…

    2024 · eloqdata.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    Build something amazing! CDN, Observability, KV Store + more

    2024 · fastly.com · its alternatives →

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    A strongly-typed document database that runs on any transactional key-value store. - losfair/RefineDB

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    A realtime server for the modern web

    2016 · deepstream.io · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    A multi-threaded, TCP, key-value store inspired by Redis implemented in Haskell. - honza/redish

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    A fast, multi-threaded Redis® and Valkey alternative written in Rust: drop-in compatible, with full-text and vector search built in - kividbio/kividb

    4d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8B2

    This is a long-running project that started as the proverbial need to scratch my own itch and then somehow evolved into a full-time job of the past 6 years. Link: https://bvckup2.com I thought I'd do a Show HN for two reasons. 1. I obviously want to show my baby to those who haven't seen it. Its primary purpose is to do very fast file replication. If you are familiar with "robocopy /mir" - same idea, but on steroids. Lots of them. It can be used for both mirroring and archiving backups, among other things. It is light, very small and it is really quite fast. Half of the…

    2019 · bvckup2.com · its alternatives →

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    RipDB▲65

    Fast, decentralized key-value Store for web3 builders

    2022 · zdenham.github.io · its alternatives →

  10. 10
    Fast.io▲135

    A simple enterprise file delivery network that syncs

    2019 · fast.io · its alternatives →

  11. 11SA
  12. 12

    I built tinykv because I kept reaching for simple persistent storage in Rust projects but found existing solutions either too complex (sled) or unmaintained (pickledb). tinykv focuses on simplicity: JSON-based, serde-powered, with optional TTL. Perfect for CLI tools, game saves, config storage. Would appreciate any feedback from the HN community!

    2025 · crates.io · its alternatives →

  13. 13PD

    PicoMQ is a Rust server for Durable Streams, built on Object Store. Cheap, URL-addressable, granular streams (create/append/read/long-poll/SSE), with Pico Protocol or Durable Streams Protocol as the facade. S3Stream is the stream storage primitive, used in AutoMQ, shipped as a Rust library. Coordination is a command log in Postgres.

    Aug 2026 · picomq.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14RA

    a very simple pure key => value storage system that speaks Redis protocol with Postgres as storage engine and more

    2018 · alash3al.github.io · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    The most advanced distribution system of NDB Cluster, by Mikael Ronström the inventor of NDB Cluster; made to work for the most advanced ML applications.

    2021 · rondb.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16

    Redis on Heroku, performant with attractive prices

    2021 · elements.heroku.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17
    kvdb.io▲12

    Simple Key-Value Store for Metrics & IoT

    2018 · kvdb.io · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    I had already posted the project a couple of years ago, and it gained some interest, but a lot of stuff has been done since then, especially regarding performance, a completely new JSON store, a REST API, various internals refactored, an improved JSONiq based query engine allowing updates, implementing set-oriented join optimizations, a now already dated web UI, a new Kotlin based CLI, a Python and TypeScript client to ease the use of Sirix... First prototypes from a precursor stem already from 2005. So, what is it all about? The system uses ideas from ZFS (a keyed index trie, storing…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    IronDB is now ImmortalDB: https://github.com/gruns/ImmortalDB - gruns/irondb

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20

    Serverless, real-time data store with GraphQL and search

    2022 · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    SQLite has six layers: SQL parser → query planner → VDBE → B-tree → pager → OS. (https://sqlite.org/arch.html) For key-value workloads you only need the bottom three. SNKV cuts the top three layers and talks directly to SQLite's B-tree engine. No SQL strings. No query planner. No VM. Just put/get/delete on the same storage core that powers SQLite. Python: pip install snkv from snkv import KVStore with KVStore("mydb.db") as db: db["hello"] = "world" print(db["hello"]) # b"world" C/C++ (single-header, drop-in): #define SNKV_IMPLEMENTATION #include "snkv.h" KVStore…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    K.E.V. (Keys, Extras, and Values) is a Python ORM for key-value stores based on Valley. Currently supported backends are Redis, S3, and a S3/Redis hybrid backend. Based on Valley. - qwigo/kev

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Hi HN, I'm Emilie, I have a literature background (which explains the well-written documentation!) and I've been learning Rust and distributed systems by building minikv over the past few months. It recently got featured in Programmez! magazine: https://www.programmez.com/actualites/minikv-un-key-value-st... minikv is an open-source, distributed storage engine built for learning, experimentation, and self-hosted setups. It combines a strongly-consistent key-value database (Raft), S3-compatible object storage, and basic multi-tenancy. Features/highlights: - Raft…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    A Redis-compatable key-value store. Up to 10x faster. Native vector support. - lux-db/lux

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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