# The Post-Redis Architecture: Inside KiviDB's 21-Million-Operation Rust Engine

> Source: <https://aiflash.com/content/the-post-redis-architecture-inside-kividbs-21-million-operation-rust-engine/>
> Published: 2026-10-20 21:27:50+00:00

Tackling the multi-core scaling limits and licensing fractures of classical in-memory caches, KiviDB clocks 21.2 million pipelined operations per second. By unifying a sharded shared-nothing Rust runtime with native HNSW vector search, it marks a decisive departure from the single-threaded event loop.