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OdedDragonfly
In-Memory DatabasesWhat is Dragonfly?
It is a modern in-memory datastore, fully compatible with Redis and Memcached APIs. It implements novel algorithms and data structures on top of a multi-threaded, shared-nothing architecture. As a result, Dragonfly reaches x25 performance compared to Redis and supports millions of QPS on a single instance.
Dragonfly is a tool in the In-Memory Databases category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Robust and ultra fast in-memory datastoreFully compatible with Redis and MemcachedEngineered to hide all complexities behind the scenes allowing you to avoid working with complex cluster configurationsOptimized to utilize all hardware resources to deliver the same workloads at a fraction of the costsUtilizes state of the art academic algorithms to provide strict serializability guarantees in a multi-threaded architectureMemory efficient
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Dragonfly Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Dragonfly?
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Hazelcast
With its various distributed data structures, distributed caching capabilities, elastic nature, memcache support, integration with Spring and Hibernate and more importantly with so many happy users, Hazelcast is feature-rich, enterprise-ready and developer-friendly in-memory data grid solution.
Aerospike
Aerospike is an open-source, modern database built from the ground up to push the limits of flash storage, processors and networks. It was designed to operate with predictable low latency at high throughput with uncompromising reliability – both high availability and ACID guarantees.
