KeyDB CEO Interview: Getting into YC with a Fork of Redis

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Post by dmytton » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 3:01 PM UTC

KeyDB CEO Interview: Getting into YC with a Fork of Redis
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Post by klohto » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 3:56 PM UTC

Any experience with KeyDB in production? Is the Flash support in KeyDB still only in "Pro" version? Cannot find anything in the docs.

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Post by jdsully » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 3:58 PM UTC

klohto wrote: post #2

Any experience with KeyDB in production? Is the Flash support in KeyDB still only in "Pro" version? Cannot find anything in the docs.

Yea FLASH is only in the Enterprise version. At a rough level the open source is the best cache we can make while pro/enterprise is the best full featured database. It’s not fully there yet but the end goal is you can get caching and persistence in one place.

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Post by thegreatpeter » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

klohto wrote: post #2

Any experience with KeyDB in production? Is the Flash support in KeyDB still only in "Pro" version? Cannot find anything in the docs.

Draftbit uses KeyDB in production. It's fast

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Post by unmole » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

Probably off-topic but I'm curious about the HPE and Huawei logos on KeyDB's website [0]. What is their involvement in their project?

0: https://keydb.dev/

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Post by welder » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

There's a post about another Redis-clone on the front page today called SSDB. Seems to be a common occurrence:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19213261

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Post by jdsully » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 4:11 PM UTC

unmole wrote: post #5

Probably off-topic but I'm curious about the HPE and Huawei logos on KeyDB's website [0]. What is their involvement in their project? 0: https://keydb.dev/

They’re users. We were pretty bad at asking for logos and just started down that road. Honestly if I had one regret it’s not doing more user outreach.

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Post by atonse » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

This is totally going to be a Hacker News Bingo type of question.

But has anyone tried to do a clean room implementation of Redis using Rust, but speaks the same wire protocol? You would get the zero-cost multi-threading, memory safety, etc, and it would be a drop in replacement.

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Post by secondcoming » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

klohto wrote: post #2

Any experience with KeyDB in production? Is the Flash support in KeyDB still only in "Pro" version? Cannot find anything in the docs.

Someone on my team looked at it, and for our workload (lots of MGETs per query) it wasn't that much better than redis. We may still go with it though, our GCP Memorystore instance is pretty much at 100% CPU constantly.

We have still yet to evaluate Redis6.

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Post by Scarbutt » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

jdsully wrote: post #3

klohto wrote: post #2

Any experience with KeyDB in production? Is the Flash support in KeyDB still only in "Pro" version? Cannot find anything in the docs.

Yea FLASH is only in the Enterprise version. At a rough level the open source is the best cache we can make while pro/enterprise is the best full featured database. It’s not fully there yet but the end goal is you can get caching and persistence in one place.

What persistence options does KeyDB has that Redis doesn't?