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Github: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet Competitors: 1. DragonflyDB: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly 2. Lavik: https://github.com/eloqdata/lavik DragonflyDB is famous for 4 millions QPS on single node. While Lavik focus on…

comment by hubertzhang · 2026-10-13 · in Garnet: KV store for agent, best paper VLDB 2026

…redis but faster, but having a deeper connection to the machine, to seeing what else is possible. https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blame/main/README.m...

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-03-31 · in Dragonfly: Modern Replacement for Redis and Memcached

…more powerful system but performance wise it's the same. Side containers DB: I use postgres Redis: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly as the redis container Image processing: imaginary container maintained by the Nextcloud team Most…

comment by dugite-code · 2025-02-27 · in OpenCloud 1.0

Other API-compatible reimplementations (others?): https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly DragonflyDB (not open source, BuSL-1.1) with more performance https://github.com/apache/kvrocks Apache Kvrocks (Apache-2.0) uses disk-based NoSQL…

comment by remram · 2025-01-21 · in Kronotop: Redis-compatible, transactional document store backed by FoundationDB

https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly Is a multi-threaded drop in replacment

comment by OPoncz · 2024-11-28 · in Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library

Its available on Dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly Here is the docs https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/command-reference/hashes/hex...

comment by OPoncz · 2024-11-22 · in The Fastest Redis Ever

https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly is another option. Not a fork but API-compatible reimplementation. https://github.com/apache/kvrocks is another, built on RocksDB, with different tradeoff (availability/durability, clustered)

comment by remram · 2024-03-22 · in Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis

Potential alternatives: - https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly (BSL-licensed, aka not OSS). - https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB (BSD-licensed) Anyone using one of these?

comment by fermigier · 2024-03-21 · in Redis adopts dual source-available licensing

…and how much they really contribute to society. Perhaps their terms should be shortened?) [1]: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m...

comment by Buttons840 · 2023-06-16 · in Generating Income from Open Source

…beat another builder. You asked me about my perspectives and priorities? These are my priorities: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/graphs/contributors 3. The first thing I did was on this thread was to apologize for having FAQ with…

comment by romange · 2023-05-21 · in Dragonfly – Performant in-memory data store

…vs Memcached. Are you calling me a liar? :) Do you think I also photoshopped this document? https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/master/docs/me...

comment by romange · 2023-05-21 · in KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis

…on their laptops and not in the production. And it's not just about management complexity. See this https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/issues/1229 and it's just one example. Single cpu - is just not enough for today use-cases.

comment by romange · 2023-05-21 · in Dragonfly – Performant in-memory data store

The v1.3.0 version was released 3 days ago. https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/releases/tag/v1.3.0 If you want to integrate it, you also need to check the Software License. https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m.…

comment by pella · 2023-05-21 · in Dragonfly – Performant in-memory data store

Unlikely, it's not even open source: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m...

comment by fweimer · 2023-05-21 · in KeyDB – A Multithreaded Fork of Redis

…that can be an alternative to Redis: - KeyDB: https://github.com/snapchat/keydb - Dragonfly: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly - Skytable: https://github.com/skytable/skytable I have used keyDB before. The raft consensus makes…

comment by didip · 2023-05-18 · in LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)

License: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m... It is source available. Generally can't use it to create a competing product... but also means you cannot combine it with any of the popular open source licenses.…

comment by Pet_Ant · 2023-03-21 · in Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21M)

…of the community contributors submitted a PR that introduces automatic recognition of the hot keys: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/pull/951 (this feature is not ready for production use yet but we will get there). It also has a…

comment by romange · 2023-03-21 · in Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21M)

not closed source https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly

comment by worldsoup · 2023-03-21 · in Dragonfly Is Production Ready (and we raised $21M)

Ouch C++ https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly why not rust? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33436268

comment by andrewfromx · 2023-03-21 · in Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M

…(like AWS), then it's Open Source for you today. (The license is Business Source License[0]) 0: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m...

comment by freeqaz · 2022-09-15 · in Show HN: Cachegrand – a fast OSS Key-Value store built for modern hardware

…see https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand/blob/main/docs/a... Compare with e.g. dragonflydb: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/docs/api_... Interesting to see how this will develop over time.

comment by NiekvdMaas · 2022-09-14 · in Show HN: Cachegrand – a fast OSS Key-Value store built for modern hardware

Or against https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly .

comment by nvartolomei · 2022-09-14 · in Show HN: Cachegrand – a fast OSS Key-Value store built for modern hardware

…feature recognizes has very little to do with what licenses are in use and practical. Example: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m...

comment by yencabulator · 2022-08-25 · in How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)

…https://github.com/ideawu/ssdb ) - Dynomite ( https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite/ ) - Dragonfly ( https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly ) - Skytable ( https://github.com/skytable/skytable ) - Tidis ( https://github.com/yongman/tidis )…

comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-07-16 · in I deleted 78% of my Redis container and it still works

updated the post. I ran the benches that were mentioned here[1] and here[2]. [1]: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly#benchmarks [2]: https://github.com/ohsayan/sky-benches

comment by johnwoods · 2022-06-19 · in Redis vs. KeyDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Skytable

…designed to use less overhead memory in its keys table. As for the why, you can read about it here: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly#background

comment by romange · 2022-05-30 · in Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

…sit on some more recent research on data structures that perform well in multithreaded systems. https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly#background

comment by spullara · 2022-05-30 · in Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

…only non-production use is allowed until June 2027 when this release changes to an Apache license? https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m... I understand wanting to protect your work from someone else turning into a…

comment by thesuperbigfrog · 2022-05-30 · in Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

Actually snapshot is done in the background and does not use fork like Redis. You can see it here: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly#memory-efficiency-b...

comment by OPoncz · 2022-05-30 · in Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

I want to take a minute to appreciate and recognize the https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly#background section. A lot of projects say "faster" without giving some hint of the things they did to achieve this. "A novel fork-less…

comment by Xeoncross · 2022-05-30 · in Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

…they cite is from 2014, another from 2020. The use of io_uring as well is also somewhat novel. [0] https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly#background

comment by staticassertion · 2022-05-30 · in Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached