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Products that do what Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image does

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I've built a nice home server OS▲194
ohai! I've released Lightwhale 3, which is possibly the easiest way to self-host Docker containers. It's a free, immutable Linux system purpose-built to live-boot straight into a working Docker Engine, thereby shortcutting the need for installation, configuration, and maintenance. Its simple design makes it easy to learn, and its low memory footprint should make it especially attractive during these times of RAMageddon. If this has piqued your interest, do check it out, along with its easy-to-follow Getting Started guide. In any event, have a nice day! =)
Apr 2026 · lightwhale.asklandd.dk
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Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust with 5M+ GET/s▲25
Sep 2025 · github.com
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A bi-directional, persisted KV store that is faster than Redis▲79
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
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OrbStack▲170
Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOS
2023
5TA
Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3▲185
I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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Servers.lol – Should Your EC2 Be a Lambda?▲150
2017 · servers.lol
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Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust▲110
2020 · github.com
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GetClouder▲91
Spin highly-scalable Linux containers in 5 secs.Free in beta
2014
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Solidis – Tiny TS Redis client, no deps, for serverless▲71
Hey everyone! Over the past two years I threw myself back into full-time engineering with a simple goal: write code that gives back to the community. After a lot of late-night FOMO (“AI will do it all for us, right?”) and some painful production incidents, I finally turned my weekend project into an open-source library. [ What is Solidis? ] - Super-light (< 30 KB) RESP2/RESP3 client with zero runtime deps and first-class ESM/CJS support. - Fully tree-shakable – import only the commands you need. - Written with SOLID principles & full TypeScript typings for every command. - Designed…
2025 · github.com
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Tutum▲86
Docker containers as a cloud service
2014
11WA
We are three devs from Kenya and built a Docker alternative in Rust▲12
2025 · gist.github.com
12RC
Redis-cell, an API rate limiter as a Redis module, written in Rust▲15
2016 · github.com
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Thiicket▲86
Serverless for Redis: same underlying engine, better model
2020
14AR
Aredis–redis client for Python(also has support for sentinel and cluster)▲26
2017 · github.com
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Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering▲75
Setting up Kafka or such enterprise oriented software with their clusters or dedicated servers is heavy and bothering enough that most small teams or indie hackers skip it entirely and making compromise to use in-memory queues. I wanted something in between: a persistent queue that is simple to run (one binary, which makes one sqlite db), gets real fault isolation and crash recovery due to Elixir, easy to inspect (open ezra.db in any SQLite browser and see every task), and requires no new client library - it speaks the Redis Streams wire protocol, so any Redis client in any language just…
Jun 2026 · github.com
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Racompass▲84
A faster and more robust management tool for Redis
2021
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Redis Utils – Node.js-based utils to deal with large Redis databases▲31
2019 · github.com
18IM
I made an alternative to hosted Redis – Serverless for Redis▲25
2020 · thiicket.com
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Fleet▲87
The blazing fast build tool for Rust
2022
20RT
Rx, the Deploy-as-you-save client for the cloud▲8
rx is a lightweight CLI and runtime that lets you deploy any function instantly as you save it in your editor. It’s fast, simple, and takes care of setting up all your cloud infrastructure. The best dev experience with everything you need built-in: - auth - permissions - payments - secrets - storage - logs - email & SMS - and way more Related beta launch tweet: https://x.com/KhalidZoabi/status/1777673531972608249 Wanted to show it to you guys, gauge interest, and get some feedback. There's a large roadmap of upcoming stuff. Feel free to DM me on X for more information!
2024 · rx.run
21AB
A Better redis-cli▲11
2020 · iredis.io
22SC
Self-contained Redis server▲19
2015 · github.com
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WolfStack – Proxmox-like server management in a single Rust binary▲32
Mar 2026 · wolfscale.org
24EA
Ember – A modern Redis drop-in replacement built in Rust▲5
Feb 2026 · emberdb.com

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