Zedis
Dev tools
redis compatible database
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158points
111comments
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Top 12%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 9 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting project and cool to keep building
From 2 comments
This is an interesting project but a poorly chosen name because it can easily be considered trademark infringement for being confusingly-similar to "Redis", especially since it's…
reenorap on HNcool stuff, keep at it!
BiraIgnacio on HN
Objections
Memory safety claims doubtful given possible memory bugs
From 1 comment
> Written in Zig for optimal performance and memory safety Ironic to see this, as even a cursory glance over the code shows a lot of memory bugs, such as dangling pointers, data…
destroycom on HN
Name may cause trademark confusion with Redis
From 1 comment
This is an interesting project but a poorly chosen name because it can easily be considered trademark infringement for being confusingly-similar to "Redis", especially since it's…
reenorap on HN
README appears LLM-generated
From 2 comments
https://github.com/barddoo/zedis/blob/87321b04224b2e2e857b6704926952b47abf01cc/README.md#project-structure these seem to occur only in college assignment projects, and in the…
5- on HNAs an avid Claude Code user, I can tell you with 99% probability, that README is LLM-generated. This exactly the same structure and wording used by Claude (of course, it has some…
rmonvfer on HN
Requests
Add vector search support
From 1 comment
Consider adding support for vector search and sketching (https://www.sketchingbigdata.org/).
esafak on HN
Add disk-backed storage
From 1 comment
Sorry if somewhat off-topic, but might help with getting more users. Redis is actually good enough and easy to install for most projects, but it has downside that it's…
k_bx on HN
Add RedisJSON-like features
From 1 comment
This is a very cool project. I wish it could do the same stuff as RedisJson at some point!
mawadev on HN
Questions
Is it single threaded?
From 1 comment
Are you keeping it single threaded?
nitishr on HN
How is RAII achieved in Zig?
From 1 comment
From the README: > Memory safety with RAII patterns I'm curious to see how they achieve RAII in Zig, which doesn't have destructors. If they mean defer + deinit methods, that's…
maleldil on HN
Alternatives named
Redka
From 1 comment
Redka may be interesting to you: https://github.com/nalgeon/redka
ncruces on HN
Microsoft Garnet
From 1 comment
Redis compatible projects with larger-than-memory support do exists, e.g. https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/welcome/features#tiered-storage
badLiveware on HN
kvrocks
From 1 comment
Sorry if somewhat off-topic, but might help with getting more users. Redis is actually good enough and easy to install for most projects, but it has downside that it's…
k_bx on HN