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Top 18 Rust Key Value Store Projects
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skytable
Skytable is a modern scalable NoSQL database with BlueQL, designed for performance, scalability and flexibility. Skytable gives you spaces, models, data types, complex collections and more to build powerful experiences
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Project mention: I built a Rust replacement for ccusage — 1,742x faster, near-zero overhead | dev.to | 2026-05-08
Toki is a direct, drop-in replacement for ccusage. It's a Rust daemon that indexes your sessions incrementally and serves reports from an embedded LSM store (fjall, used as a TSDB). Docker-style architecture: one daemon ingests, multiple clients read.
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skipdb
An embedded, in-memory, zero-copy, atomicity, consistency, isolation, MVCC, almost lock-free and serializable snapshot isolation database engine.
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skl
A lock-free thread-safe concurrent SkipMap implementation based on ARENA skiplist which helps develop MVCC memtable for LSM-Tree.
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Project mention: Show HN: I built a distributed key-value store in Rust (~2K LOC) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-19
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Project mention: Redistill - High Performance Redis Compatible Key Value Database | dev.to | 2026-02-04
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KV store in Rust, backed by a disaggregated, replicated journal https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2-kv-demo
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nkv
Share your state between services using persisted key value storage with notification option (by nkval)
Project mention: Nkv – a tiny key–value store with pub/sub and keyspaces for shared state | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-21 -
ApexStore
Rust LSM-Tree storage engine with DashMap MemTable, SSTable auto-repair, and TLS support. Designed for embedding in applications that outgrow SQLite.
Project mention: Show HN: ApexStore – An embedded LSM-Tree storage engine written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-09 -
Project mention: Ferrokey – embedded B-tree KV store in Rust, WAL crash recovery, zero deps | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-06
The crash recovery test was the most interesting to write — it simulates a crash by appending WAL records without writing to the db file, then reopening.
Code: https://github.com/Pulkit7070/ferrokey
https://x.com/PsudoKit/status/2052074630563954713
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Rust Key Value Store discussion
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Inlined-KV – managed embedded key-value store
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Show HN: Skytable's new NoSQL engine BlueQL with injection safety, improved perf
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Updated: Understanding the working of Skytable's NoSQL engine
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Skytable’s new NoSQL engine released: BlueQL, injection protection, collections and performance improvements
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Skytable’s new NoSQL engine released: BlueQL, injection protection, collections and performance improvements
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Skytable
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Skytable Octave was just released with BlueQL, advanced data modeling, complex collections and rich querying ✨🚀🎱. Tell us what you think!
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Key Value Store projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | skytable | 2,661 |
| 2 | fjall | 2,114 |
| 3 | heed | 895 |
| 4 | surrealkv | 532 |
| 5 | lucid | 391 |
| 6 | skipdb | 237 |
| 7 | ikv-store | 226 |
| 8 | skl | 67 |
| 9 | client-rust | 46 |
| 10 | nanokv | 27 |
| 11 | grenad | 26 |
| 12 | redistill | 22 |
| 13 | gdbm-native-rs | 14 |
| 14 | riakv | 9 |
| 15 | s2-kv-demo | 7 |
| 16 | nkv | 4 |
| 17 | ApexStore | 4 |
| 18 | ferrokey | 0 |
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