microsoft/garnet

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Garnet is a high-performance remote cache-store from Microsoft Research written in C#/.NET, speaking the RESP wire protocol so unmodified Redis clients can connect to it. It provides throughput and latency-focused caching with persistence, cluster sharding, replication, key migration, and larger-than-memory tiered storage via its Tsavorite engine.

Use cases

• drop-in Redis-compatible cache server for my app
• low-latency caching with many concurrent client connections
• persistent key-value store larger than memory
• self-hosted cache with cluster sharding and replication
• use Redis clients from C# or other languages against a .NET server
• vector similarity search with a Redis-like API

When to choose

• you want Redis-protocol caching with better throughput/scalability on many connections
• you run .NET and want an extensible, cross-platform cache server
• you need persistence, recovery, or larger-than-memory tiered storage
• you want TLS and clustering out of the box

When to avoid

• you need 100% parity with every Redis command or Redis modules
• you depend on the Redis ecosystem tooling and managed Redis services
• you need a tiny embedded in-process cache rather than a remote store

Facets

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caching database http-server search-engine databases backend developer-tools self-hosted cross-platform windows dotnet self-hosted redis-compatible resp-protocol key-value-store cache-store tsavorite cluster-sharding replication vector-search microsoft-research linux docker

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