Garnet: A faster cache store drop in replacement for Redis (www.microsoft.com)
from douglasg14b@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 22 Mar 2024 07:46
https://programming.dev/post/11783202

GitHub: 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.

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lemmyvore@feddit.nl on 22 Mar 2024 14:49 next collapse

There’s going to be a lot of contenders vying for Redis’ hat. There’s also DragonFly which is highly performant but its license is problematic just like Redis’, and I’m waiting to see what Amazon does. Microsoft published Garnet under MIT, I expect AWS will use a similarly open license/product. But we’ll see.

I’m afraid all that Redis has accomplished with this change was to make themselves irrelevant.

theComposer@beehaw.org on 22 Mar 2024 15:17 next collapse

I’m OOTL, what did Redis change that’s led to a bunch of competitors?

jnovinger@programming.dev on 22 Mar 2024 17:10 collapse
douglasg14b@programming.dev on 22 Mar 2024 22:59 collapse

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.

Wiz@midwest.social on 22 Mar 2024 15:35 next collapse

Yes, and Codeberg just announced that they forked Redis.

social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/112139742595817683

As it turns out, nobody needs Redis now!

Pyroglyph@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 2024 16:48 collapse

Just found this article about it that seems to fundamentally misunderstand it in every single way. I didn’t know it was even possible to be this clueless. Either that, or it’s AI.

douglasg14b@programming.dev on 26 May 2024 17:46 collapse

Holy shit that’s completely wrong.

It’s for sure AI generated articles. Time to block softonic.