Looking for feedback on Zentropy – a Redis-compatible data store written in Zig

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Zentropy

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on Zentropy, an experimental Redis-compatible in-memory data store written in Zig.

The goals of the project are:

Learn and explore systems programming with Zig.
Build a lightweight Redis alternative with a focus on simplicity.
Experiment with networking, data structures, and performance in Zig.

It’s still in the early stages, so I’m looking for feedback from the community:

Does the idea sound interesting?
Are there features you’d consider essential for a Redis-compatible server?
Any suggestions on architecture, performance, or Zig-specific design patterns?
If you’ve built similar systems in Zig, I’d love to hear about your experience.

The project lives on GitHub if anyone wants to take a look— GitHub - mailmug/zentropy: A high-performance, lightweight key-value store server written in Zig · GitHub

Supported Zig versions

what versions are supported?
0.15.1

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i checked existing “well known” zig redis clients - zig 0.16.0

in order to prove Redis compatability and code validation - next steps may be

  • moving to 0.16
  • adding tests
    • client and server work under the same process