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Permazen Alternatives
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AppSignal
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prql
PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement
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LevelDB
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.
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Kargo
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JDBI
The Jdbi library provides convenient, idiomatic access to relational databases in Java and other JVM technologies such as Kotlin, Clojure or Scala.
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tigris
Discontinued Tigris is a globally distributed, multi-cloud object storage service with built-in support for the S3 API. It uses Dynamic Data Placement and Access-Based Rebalancing to deliver low-latency access worldwide — without the need to manage replication or caching.
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peritext
A CRDT for asynchronous rich-text collaboration, where authors can work independently and then merge their changes.
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Hence, a higher number means a better Permazen alternative or higher similarity.
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Java Is Fast. Your Code Might Not Be
https://permazen.io/ exists and is a simpler yet still very powerful way to think about databases (for java but the concepts are general).
But it's only really efficient if it can run code right next to the data via fast access - ideally the same machine. The moment you have a DB running on separate hardware or far away from the client, it's going to be slower.
SQL is a very compact way to communicate what you want from a complex database in a way that can be statically analyzed and dynamically optimized. It's also sandboxable. Not so easily to replace.
- Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API
- It's Time to Stop Building KV Databases
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Making Database Systems Usable
There's an interesting experiment in this direction here:
https://github.com/permazen/permazen
It maps Java objects to a scalable transactional K/V store of your choice, and handles things like indexing, schema migrations and the rest for you. You express query plans by hand using the Java collections and streams framework.
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ORMs are nice but they are the wrong abstraction
The most interesting/fresh approach I've seen to this problem is Permazen.
https://github.com/permazen/permazen/
It starts by asking what the most natural way is to integrate persistence with a programming language (Java in this case, but the concepts are generic), and then goes ahead and implements the features of an RDBMS as an in-process library that can be given different storage backends as long as they implement a sorted K/V store. So it can sit on top of a simple in-process file based K/V store, RocksDB, FoundationDB, or any SQL database like PostgreSQL, SQLite, Spanner, etc (it just uses the RDBMS to store sorted key/value pairs in that case).
Essentially it's a way to map object graphs to key/value pairs but with the usual features you'd want like indexing, validation, transactions, and so on. The design is really nice and can scale from tiny tasks you'd normally use JSON or object serialization for, all the way up to large distributed clusters.
Because the native object model is mapped directly to storage there's no object/relational mismatch.
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Permazen: Language-natural persistence to KV stores
Ok, let's change to that from https://permazen.io/ above.
Usually we go the other way and prefer the project page, but there's clearly not enough info there.
- How FoundationDB works and why it works
- Figma Is a File Editor
- FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store
- Warp: Lightweight Multi-Key Transactions for Key-Value Stores
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A note from our sponsor - Kargo
akuity.io | 12 Sep 2026
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permazen/permazen is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Permazen is HTML.
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