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Garnet: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Garnet is a cache store from Microsoft Research that speaks the Redis wire protocol (RESP), so unmodified Redis clients in any language can connect to it. It supports much of the Redis API, including strings, sorted sets, bitmaps and HyperLogLog, and offers extensibility and transactional stored procedures. Garnet is written in C# on modern .NET, uses a storage layer called Tsavorite with tiered storage support, has a cluster mode with sharding and replication, and supports TLS. It runs on Windows and Linux and is installed by you, for example through Docker or NuGet.

Garnet is open source under the MIT licence and is developed by Microsoft, a US company. The sources describe no Microsoft-hosted Garnet service: you run the software yourself, so where the data resides depends on your own infrastructure, for example a European data centre or a European cloud provider. The project nonetheless remains steered by a US company, which is relevant to the continuity and direction of its development.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-675
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 5, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
USVerified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Database & Data Management
Type
Product
Website
microsoft.github.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Garnet

The European alternatives to Garnet come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Garnet

Garnet is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Garnet hosts data in EU, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Garnet is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Garnet together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Garnet?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Garnet include Aiven, ArangoDB and DuckDB. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Garnet?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Garnet include DuckDB, Elastic, Firebird SQL, MariaDB and Meilisearch. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Garnet GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Garnet is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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