Open Source Redis Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Redis is DiceDB. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Redis and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Redis are Valkey, KeyDB, CouchDB and YDB.

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  1. DiceDB icon
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    DiceDB is an open-source, fast, reactive, in-memory database optimized for modern hardware. Commonly used as a cache, it offers a familiar interface while enabling real-time data updates through query subscriptions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  2. Valkey icon
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    Valkey is an open source (BSD) high-performance key/value datastore that supports a variety of workloads such as caching, message queues, and can act as a primary database. Valkey can run as either a standalone daemon or in a cluster, with options for replication and high...

    49 Valkey alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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  3. KeyDB icon
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    KeyDB is fast NoSQL database with full compatibility for Redis APIs, clients, and modules.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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  4. CouchDB icon
     49 likes

    Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP / JSON API. It includes incremental map / reduce mechanics for queries and keeps data safe with an append-only datastore.

    74 CouchDB alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
     
  5. YDB icon
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    YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. The Apache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Microsoft Azure
     
  7. FerretDB icon
     6 likes

    FerretDB (formerly MangoDB) is an open-source proxy, which converts MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL, and uses PostgreSQL as a database engine.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Hazelcast icon
     16 likes

    Hazelcast is an in-memory Open Source data grid based on Java. By having multiple nodes form a cluster, data is evenly distributed among the nodes. This allows for horizontal scalability both in terms of available storage space and processing power.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  9. CockroachDB icon
     16 likes

    Cockroach is a distributed key/value datastore which supports ACID transactional semantics and versioned values as first-class features. The primary design goal is global consistency and survivability, hence the name.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. HyperDex icon
     4 likes

    HyperDex is the next generation key-value store. It provides a rich API, strong consistency, fault-tolerance, and transactions.

    23 HyperDex alternatives

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. memcached icon
     12 likes

    Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  12. RethinkDB icon
     18 likes

    The open-source database for the realtime web.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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