Garnet–open-source faster cache-store speeds up applications, services
www.microsoft.com
Garnet is a cache-store system that addresses growing demand for data storage to support interactive web applications and services. Offering several advantages over legacy cache-stores, Garnet is now available as an open-source download.

GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet

Just saw this today and I am pretty stoked. It’s just a drop in replacement and performs > 10x faster under workloads with many client connections. Not that I found redis slow, but in Enterprise workloads that’s a lot of money saved. $50k Garnet clusters handling similar workloads for $5k would be significant.

It being essentially entirely written in C# makes it pretty easy to read, understand, contribe to, and extend. Custom functions in C# have a pretty low barrier to entry.

I get that there’s probably going to be a lot of hate just because this is released by Microsoft developers… But in my opinion the C# ecosystem is one of the best to build on.

  • @douglasg14bOP
    3•3 months ago

    To be fair Microsoft has been working on Garnet for something like 4+ years and have already adopted it internally to reduce infrastructure costs.

    Which has been their MO for the last few years. Improve .Net baseline performance, build high performance tools on top of it, dog food them, and then release them under open source licenses.