Product · AtlasKV

Enterprise active-active replication. Without the enterprise price tag.

Multi-region key value infrastructure built on open-source Valkey. The same active-active replication, conflict resolution, and regional resilience that proprietary platforms charge six figures for — without the licensing costs, vendor lock-in, or opaque pricing.

The Problem

The maths don’t work

You need active-active replication across regions. The incumbent enterprise solution prices it per shard, per region, with annual contracts. For most teams, the licensing alone exceeds the infrastructure cost.

Enterprise Licensing

What you’re paying for today

  • Per-shard, per-region licensing fees that scale with your data
  • Annual contracts with six-figure minimums for multi-region
  • Proprietary database engine you cannot inspect, fork, or replace
  • Vendor lock-in: your data layer depends on one company’s pricing decisions
  • Enterprise sales cycle before you can even test active-active in staging
AtlasKV

What it should cost

  • No software licensing fees — the platform is free
  • One-time installation and architecture consultancy by TENSORY³
  • We deploy it correctly into your infrastructure — not a download link and good luck
  • Optional ongoing support after go-live
  • No per-shard, per-region multipliers — pay for expertise, not permission

Example: 3-region active-active, 50 GB dataset

Enterprise vendor (typical annual licensing) $120,000 – $250,000 /yr
+ Cloud infrastructure (VMs, networking) $18,000 – $36,000 /yr
Total with enterprise licensing $138,000 – $286,000 /yr
AtlasKV software $0
+ Cloud infrastructure (same VMs, networking) $18,000 – $36,000 /yr
+ TENSORY³ installation & architecture consultancy (one-time) from $15,000
+ Optional: ongoing support & operations from $2,000 /mo
Year 1 total with AtlasKV $33,000 – $75,000
Year 2+ (infra + optional support only) $18,000 – $60,000 /yr

Indicative pricing based on publicly available enterprise vendor rate cards and typical cloud compute costs (3 regions, 2 replicas per region, 50 GB working set). Actual costs vary by provider, region, and configuration. These figures are estimates — not a binding quote.

How It Works

A replication layer, not a proprietary database

AtlasKV puts a lightweight replication proxy in front of standard Valkey instances. All multi-master semantics — conflict resolution, distributed counters, cross-site replication — live in the proxy. Valkey stays unmodified.

No fork. No lock-in.

Upgrade Valkey independently of AtlasKV. The replication stream runs on Kafka or Redpanda that your team already operates. If you stop using AtlasKV, your Valkey instances keep running with your data intact.

Applications connect using standard RESP protocol client libraries. No proprietary SDK. No code changes beyond pointing at the proxy endpoint.

What the proxy handles

HLC timestamping for deterministic conflict resolution. Last-write-wins for strings and hash fields. Conflict-free distributed counters for INCR/DECR workloads. Tombstone-based deletes with cross-site propagation. Owner-driven TTL expiry to prevent resurrection races.

        SITE A                                    SITE B
 ┌─────────────────────────┐             ┌─────────────────────────┐
 │  Clients (RESP)         │             │  Clients (RESP)         │
 │      │                  │             │      │                  │
 │      ▼                  │             │      ▼                  │
 │  ┌────────┐   ┌───────┐ │   WAN       │  ┌────────┐   ┌───────┐ │
 │  │ Proxy  │──▶│ OpLog │─┼─Replicate──┼─▶│Applier │──▶│Valkey │ │
 │  │        │   │       │ │             │  │        │   │       │ │
 │  └───┬────┘   └───────┘ │             │  └────────┘   └───▲───┘ │
 │      │                  │             │                   │     │
 │      ▼                  │             │  ┌────────┐       │     │
 │  ┌────────┐             │             │  │ Proxy  │───────┘     │
 │  │ Valkey │◀────────────┼─Applier◀───┼──│ OpLog  │             │
 │  └────────┘             │             │  └────────┘             │
 └─────────────────────────┘             └─────────────────────────┘
What You Get

Active-active replication without the complexity tax

The capabilities that matter for multi-region deployments — built into the proxy, not sold as add-on tiers.

01

Active-Active Writes

Every region accepts reads and writes at local latency. No cross-region round trips. No primary node bottleneck.

02

Deterministic Conflict Resolution

Hybrid Logical Clocks order concurrent writes consistently across all sites. No manual conflict handling. Predictable outcomes.

03

Distributed Counters

INCR/DECR operations that never lose updates across sites. Per-site sub-counters converge automatically. Built for metering, rate limiting, and soft quota tracking.

04

Regional Resilience

When a region goes down, the others keep serving. When it comes back, data converges from the replication log. No manual failover runbook.

05

Standard Protocol

RESP protocol compatible. Use your existing client libraries, monitoring tools, and operational knowledge. No proprietary SDK.

06

Full Observability

Replication lag, conflict events, clock skew, tombstone backlog, proxy latency. Everything you need to operate confidently.

Compatibility

Honest about what replicates

Not every command can be replicated across sites with sane semantics. We document exactly what works, what’s local-only, and what’s coming — rather than claiming full compatibility and leaving you to discover the gaps.

Command Family Replication Semantics
GET / SET / GETSET / strings Full Last-write-wins (HLC-ordered)
INCR / INCRBY / DECR / INCRBYFLOAT Full Conflict-free distributed counters
HSET / HGET / HDEL Full Last-write-wins per field
DEL / UNLINK Full Tombstone propagation
EXPIRE / TTL / PERSIST Full Owner-driven expiry
SADD / SREM / sets Roadmap Observed-remove sets (phase 2)
MULTI / EXEC Local Per-site atomicity; replicated as individual ops
Lists (LPUSH / RPUSH) Local Local-only; no sane cross-site merge
Pub/Sub Local Per-site; cross-site bridging on roadmap
Use Cases

Where AtlasKV fits

Any workload where the cost of enterprise active-active licensing doesn’t match the value of the data being replicated.

Multi-Region Applications

Serve users from multiple regions with a unified data layer and local-latency access. No cross-region reads on the hot path.

Session Management

User sessions available across datacenters and cloud providers. Failover without session loss. No sticky routing required.

Distributed Caching

Active-active cache replication that survives regional outages without cold-start penalties or origin thundering herd.

Metering & Soft Quotas

Distributed counters for usage tracking, rate limiting, and soft quota enforcement across regions. Per-site budget allocation for overshoot control.

Telecom & IoT Platforms

Subscriber state, session data, and operational counters for distributed network services. Regional resilience for carrier-grade workloads.

Hybrid & Multi-Cloud

Same replication layer across cloud providers, on-premises, and hybrid environments. No cloud-specific lock-in.

How You Get It

Free software. Expert installation.

AtlasKV is free. Installation and architecture consultancy by TENSORY³ is mandatory — we deploy it correctly into your environment, configured for your topology, tested under your workload. After go-live, support is optional.

Software

AtlasKV Platform

Replication proxy, conflict resolution, distributed counters, and observability. Free. No licensing fees. No per-shard charges.

Required

Installation & Consultancy

Architecture review, deployment into your infrastructure, replication topology design, workload testing, and production sign-off. One-time engagement.

Optional

Ongoing Support

Monitoring, incident response, upgrade assistance, and operational guidance. Monthly retainer after go-live. Scale up or cancel as needed.

Full Service

Managed AtlasKV

We run the platform end to end. Installation, operations, monitoring, upgrades. You build applications. We handle the infrastructure.

Trade-offs

What AtlasKV is. And isn’t.

Eventually consistent. By design.

AtlasKV is an AP system. Concurrent writes to the same key at different sites are resolved deterministically — but one write wins and the other is dropped. This is the correct behaviour for cache, session, and configuration workloads.

For workloads requiring strong consistency, globally atomic transactions, or hard quota enforcement with zero overshoot, AtlasKV is not the right tool. We say so upfront rather than burying it in footnotes.

Not a full drop-in replacement

Lists, Lua scripts, and blocking commands are local-only. MULTI/EXEC gives per-site atomicity, not cross-site. Sets get full CRDT replication in phase 2.

We publish the exact command compatibility matrix because discovering replication gaps in production is worse than knowing them at evaluation time.

Get Started

The same capability. A fraction of the cost.

Tell us about your deployment — regions, dataset size, workload type — and we’ll scope the installation and send you a cost comparison against your current setup. No sales deck. Just numbers.

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Or talk to us directly. No procurement cycle required.