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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GITHUB · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 316 upvotes (top 3%)
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
- cache
- database
- dragonfly-alternative
- drop-in-replacement
- full-text-search
- high-performance
- +14 more in the details below
Similar launches
See all 2934 similar launches →Could you build this?
No A Redis-compatible, multi-core, vector-searching in-memory database needs systems engineering for protocol fidelity, concurrency, memory management, and benchmark-competitive performance that vibe coding does not reliably produce.
What it would actually take: A real version requires a Rust codebase with a lock-free or sharded data structure design, Redis RESP protocol compatibility and command semantics, and a vector index such as HNSW with persistence. Competitive speed claims depend on careful profiling, memory layout, and concurrency work. Building and validating this takes senior database and systems engineers with serious benchmarking infrastructure.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2934 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #96 of 2935 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.
- ruvio · github · 2026-10-15 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.79
- casita · github · 2026-09-27 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Rusdantic · hn · 2026-03-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- LaminarDB · hn · 2026-02-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- IndexFlow · hn · 2026-08-28 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Octopii, a runtime for writing distributed applications in Rust · hn · 2025-12-09 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- rdx · github · 2026-09-21 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- DeepSearch · hn · 2025-12-22 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.67
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More details
- External ID
- 1421490995
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- kividb
- Website domain
- kividb.io
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.97
- All tags
- 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
- AI summary
- redis-compatible in-memory database with vector search for developers
- Manually corrected
- No