Microsoft has open sourced a new cache-store solution to make services and applications faster. Microsoft has deployed it in a few places and third-party developers can get it on GitHub.
Microsoft Research has announced a new cache-store solution called Garnet. This open-source product from Microsoft boasts a rich and extensible API, support for memory and tiered storage, has an ultra-low latency pluggable network layer, and has great bare metal performance.
Outlining more benefits of Garnet, Microsoft writes:
Garnet adopts the popular RESP wire protocol as a starting point, which makes it possible to use Garnet from unmodified Redis clients available in most programming languages today.
Garnet offers much better scalability and throughput with many client connections and small batches, leading to cost savings for large apps and services.
