List of most used Key-Value stores and databases

The Mythical Engineer
Feb 23, 2023

Most Used Open Source Key Value Stores and Databases

⚡ List of most used Key-Value stores and databases

redis

Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

Created Date: 2009-03-22

All Languages: C, Tcl, Ruby, Python, Shell, Makefile, C++, Smarty

Is Project Archived: No

etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

Created Date: 2013-07-07

All Languages: Go, Shell, Jsonnet, Procfile, Makefile, Python, Dockerfile

Is Project Archived: No

leveldb

LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.

Created Date: 2014-08-28

All Languages: C++, C, CMake

Is Project Archived: No

rocksdb

A library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage.

Created Date: 2012-11-30

All Languages: C++, Java, C, Python, Perl, Shell, Makefile, CMake, PowerShell, Assembly, Dockerfile

Is Project Archived: No

dragonfly

A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

Created Date: 2021-12-11

All Languages: C++, C, Python, CMake, Shell, Smarty, Dockerfile, Makefile, Go

Is Project Archived: No

arangodb

🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.

Created Date: 2011-10-26

All Languages: C++, JavaScript, NASL, CMake, C, Python, SCSS, EJS, CSS, TypeScript, Shell, Yacc, Pascal, NSIS, HTML, LLVM, Perl, PowerShell, Dockerfile

Is Project Archived: No

tikv

Distributed transactional key-value database, originally created to complement TiDB

Created Date: 2015-12-31

All Languages: Rust, Makefile, Shell, Python, C, Dockerfile

Is Project Archived: No

memcached

memcached development tree

Created Date: 2009-04-25

All Languages: C, Perl, C++, M4, Python, Lua, DTrace, Shell, Makefile, Roff, Starlark

Is Project Archived: No

foundationdb

FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store

Created Date: 2017-12-14

All Languages: C++, C, Python, Java, CMake, Go, C#, HTML, Ruby, Shell, Assembly, JavaScript, CSS, Dockerfile, Rich Text Format

Is Project Archived: No

immudb

immudb - immutable database based on zero trust, SQL and Key-Value, tamperproof, data change history

Created Date: 2019-11-07

All Languages: Go, Shell, Yacc, Makefile, Dockerfile, Roff, Python, Smarty, HTML, JavaScript

Is Project Archived: No

KeyDB

A Multithreaded Fork of Redis

Created Date: 2019-02-01

All Languages: C++, C, Tcl, Shell, Ruby, Makefile, Roff, Python, Assembly, Dockerfile, Smarty

Is Project Archived: No

hazelcast

Open-source distributed computation and storage platform. Real-time Stream Processing Unconference. Save Your Spot https://hazelcast.com/lp/unconference/

Created Date: 2012-03-21

All Languages: Java, FreeMarker, Shell, Python, Batchfile, C, Kotlin

Is Project Archived: No

ignite

Apache Ignite

Created Date: 2015-02-19

All Languages: Java, C#, C++, Python, Shell, CMake, Batchfile, Jinja, FreeMarker, HTML, Dockerfile, PHP, PowerShell, C, JavaScript, Makefile

Is Project Archived: No

ledisdb

A high performance NoSQL Database Server powered by Go

Created Date: 2014-04-30

All Languages: Go, Python, Shell, Dockerfile, C++, Makefile, C

Is Project Archived: No

riak

Riak is a decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies.

Created Date: 2010-04-16

All Languages: Shell, Erlang, Makefile, Emacs Lisp

Is Project Archived: No

skytable

Skytable is a fast, secure and reliable realtime NoSQL database with keyspaces, tables, data types, authn/authz, snapshots and more to build powerful apps

Created Date: 2020-06-30

All Languages: Rust, Perl, Shell, C, PowerShell, Dockerfile, Makefile

Is Project Archived: No

aerospike-server

Aerospike Database Server – flash-optimized, in-memory, nosql database

Created Date: 2018-03-08

All Languages: C, C++, Makefile, Shell, CSS, Python, Roff, HTML, DTrace

Is Project Archived: No

anna

A low-latency, cloud-native KVS

Created Date: 2019-07-26

All Languages: C++, Python, CMake, Shell, Dockerfile

Is Project Archived: No

splinterdb

High Performance Embedded Key-Value Store

Created Date: 2021-07-13

All Languages: C, Shell, Python, Makefile, C++, Dockerfile

Is Project Archived: No

rondb

This is RonDB, a distribution of NDB Cluster developed and used by Hopsworks AB. It also contains development branches of RonDB.

Created Date: 2020-12-21

All Languages: C++, C, Java, NASL, Makefile, CMake, Objective-C, Perl, HTML, Shell, Yacc, JavaScript, Python, Pascal, Go, PHP, Roff, Starlark, Assembly, SWIG, DIGITAL Command Language, M4, CSS, Lex, Pawn, Awk, RPC, SourcePawn, LLVM, POV-Ray SDL, SAS, Module Management System, sed, Batchfile, CoffeeScript, Visual Basic 6.0, PLSQL

Is Project Archived: No

hibari

Hibari is a production-ready, distributed, ordered key-value, big data store. Hibari uses chain replication for strong consistency, high-availability, and durability. Hibari has excellent performance especially for read and large value operations.

Created Date: 2010-12-28