garnet
dotnet
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garnet
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A MySQL compatible database engine written in pure Go
You would be surprised by performance of modern .NET :)
Writing no-alloc is oftentimes done by reducing complexity and not doing "stupid" tricks that actually work against JIT and CoreLib features.
For databases specifically, .NET is actually positioned very well with its low-level features (intrisics incl. SIMD, FFI, struct generics though not entirely low-level) and high-throughput GC.
Interesting example of this applied in practice is Garnet[0]/FASTER[1]. Keep in mind that its codebase still consist of un-idiomatic C# 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
- FLaNK AI Weekly 25 March 2025
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Redis License Changed
At the same time Microsoft releases Garnet: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
Good timing.
- Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research
dotnet
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Redis License Changed
https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet exists for source build that stitches together SDK, Roslyn, runtime and other dependencies. A lot of them can be built and used individually, which is what contributors usually do. For example, you can clone and build https://github.com/dotnet/runtime and use the produced artifacts to execute .NET assemblies or build .NET binaries.
- Is there anything inherently wrong with .net applications for self-hosting? (especially in terms of privacy)
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Asp.net Core updates in .NET 8 Preview 1
https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet
In fact, the VMR ( linked above ) ONLY works on Linux at the moment with Windows and Mac support planned. So, .NET is Linux-first in some ways.
MAUI is not Linux first of course. The rest of it is becoming more and more Linux and container focussed though it seems.
What are some alternatives?
redis - Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes
dragonfly - A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
KeyDB - A Multithreaded Fork of Redis
FASTER - Fast persistent recoverable log and key-value store + cache, in C# and C++.
FLiPStackWeekly - FLaNK AI Weekly covering Apache NiFi, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Apache Ozone, Apache Pulsar, and more...
deeplake - Database for AI. Store Vectors, Images, Texts, Videos, etc. Use with LLMs/LangChain. Store, query, version, & visualize any AI data. Stream data in real-time to PyTorch/TensorFlow. https://activeloop.ai
vitess - Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
doltgresql - DoltgreSQL - Version Controlled PostgreSQL
dolt - Dolt – Git for Data