kividbio/kividb
A fast, multi-threaded Redis® and Valkey alternative written in Rust: drop-in compatible, with full-text and vector search built in
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KiviDB is a fast, multi-threaded alternative to Redis® and Valkey, written in Rust. It speaks the Redis protocol (RESP2 and RESP3), so existing Redis clients, redis-cli and libraries work unchanged, and it has full-text and vector search built in. It runs every core on a sharded in-memory key-value design, and persists to snapshots and an optional append-only file. On the same 32 cores, KiviDB serves 21 million pipelined GETs per second: about 9× Redis 8 and 2.3× Dragonfly, with under half Dragonfly's p99 latency (benchmarks). KiviDB listens on 6380, not Redis's 6379, so the two can run side by side; point your client at that port, or pass --port 6379. Repository: github.com/kividbio/kividb · Website: kividb.io Moving from Redis? Migration guide · Compatibility and differences · Client examples · Benchmarks · Releases · Kubernetes operator As of October 2026. Something out of date or wrong? Please open an issue. Throughput, latency,…
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- KiviDB
- How it compares
- Performance
- Key-value
- Vector search
- Load rising to saturation
- Vector search (Redis Stack–style FT.)
- Quick start
- Persistence and restarts
- Builds
- Building from source
- Running KiviDB
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What this repository does
A fast, multi-threaded Redis® and Valkey alternative written in Rust: drop-in compatible, with full-text and vector search built in
Repository facts
- Owner
- kividbio
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 499
- Forks
- 15
- Open issues + pull requests
- 11
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2026-10-16T01:07:52.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-23T11:33:45.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: cache, database, dragonfly-alternative, drop-in-replacement, full-text-search, high-performance, in-memory, io-uring, key-value-store, kividb, multithreaded, nosql, redis, redis-alternative, redis-compatible, resp, rust, valkey, vector-database, vector-search
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