# Garnet

High-performance cache-store server from Microsoft Research that speaks the RESP wire protocol, written in C# on .NET.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/garnet/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-29
Listed since: 2026-10-29

## Record

### Links

- home: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/
- repository: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet
- docs: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/getting-started
- x: https://twitter.com/msrgarnet
- discord: https://aka.ms/garnet-discord

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Microsoft Corporation
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2024
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: database
- hosting: dotnet
- language: csharp
- runtime: dotnet
- runtimeMin: dotnet 10.0
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: dotnet tool

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-28

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 12064
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 106
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/ (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/garnet (read 2026-10-29)
- urls: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-29)
- maintainer: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
- category: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/ (read 2026-10-29)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/garnet (read 2026-10-29)
- runtime: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-29)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet/blob/v2.2.5/Directory.Build.props (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/welcome/releases (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/welcome/releases (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/welcome/releases (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-29)
- runsAs: https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-29)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/garnet/releases (read 2026-10-29)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/garnet/releases (read 2026-10-29)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/garnet/releases (read 2026-10-29)
- license: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-29)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-29)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/garnet (read 2026-10-29)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/garnet/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-29)

## Notes

Garnet is a cache-store server from Microsoft Research, written in C# for .NET. It speaks the RESP protocol, so clients written for Redis can connect to it without changes. The server runs as a process that listens on TCP port 6379 by default. It is installed as a .NET tool, from a container image, or built from source with the .NET SDK. The maintainer is Microsoft Corporation.

## Worth knowing

The project's FAQ states that Garnet is not associated with Redis.

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