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Dragonfly Overview

What is Dragonfly?

Dragonfly is a drop-in Redis replacement, designed to meet the performance and efficiency requirements of modern cloud-based applications. Organizations that switch to Dragonfly require less hardware and achieve dramatically improved data performance.

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Dragonfly is a drop-in Redis replacement that delivers far more power with far fewer servers.


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2022
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Dragonfly 2345 Yale Street First Floor 94306-1449 Palo Alto, USA
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Description

Dragonfly is a drop-in Redis replacement, designed to meet the performance and efficiency requirements of modern cloud-based applications. Organizations that switch to Dragonfly require less hardware and achieve dramatically improved data performance.


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Bhawani  S.
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Bhawani S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Dragonfly: Fast, Reliable, and Easy to Use"
Dragonfly is fast, reliable, and easy to use. We tested it with up to 3 million queries per second (~250GB memory) on a 22-core instance with one m...
Vova E.
VE
Vova E.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"DragonflyDB is a game-changer!"
DragonflyDB has been a game-changer for us in terms of performance and scalability. We needed a more powerful alternative to Redis that could handl...
Denis D.
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Denis D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The Redis you always wanted!"
Our experience with Dragonfly has been extremely smooth and exciting! With Dragonfly Cloud, we replaced our huge and expensive self-hosted single-i...
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Bhawani  S.
BS
Lead Software Engineer
Internet
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
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What do you like best about Dragonfly?

Dragonfly is fast, reliable, and easy to use. We tested it with up to 3 million queries per second (~250GB memory) on a 22-core instance with one master and three replicas. It worked well for reads and writes isolation, disaster recovery, and handling large data sets.

It's a great alternative to Redis affordable, high-performing, and fully supports Redis APIs, so no code changes are needed. Perfect for teams wanting better performance at a lower cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

Overall, our experience has been excellent. Dragonfly is actively improving, and the team is responsive on Discord. They regularly add new features based on user requests, which is a big plus! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

We primarily use Dragonfly for key-value operations and high-throughput use cases. Its multithreaded, shared-nothing architecture allows us to achieve high throughput with fewer nodes, significantly reducing the overhead of instance management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Denis D.
DD
CTO
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Dragonfly?

Our experience with Dragonfly has been extremely smooth and exciting! With Dragonfly Cloud, we replaced our huge and expensive self-hosted single-instance Redis-based cache on AWS with a faster, managed cluster on Dragonfly Cloud. This led to better application performance, 60% lower costs, and improved solution reliability. The migration was as easy as changing the endpoints from Redis to Dragonfly — no code changes were required. Scaling clusters up and down is so easy and smooth! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

Although most of the necessary features are already in place (easy cluster spin-up, rolling updates, RBAC, etc.), we still lack some, such as the ability to set up maintenance windows for clusters and get notifications about planned maintenance or official Terraform provider. However, the Dragonfly team is very customer-oriented and always tries to find a suitable solution if a required feature is not generally available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Dragonfly for storing a key-value cache Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vova E.
VE
Senior Data Engineer (Team Lead)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Dragonfly?

DragonflyDB has been a game-changer for us in terms of performance and scalability. We needed a more powerful alternative to Redis that could handle large keys like hashmaps and sorted sets, and DragonflyDB has delivered impressively. We’re managing over 300GB of data with a load of up to 500k operations per second, and DragonflyDB has been able to handle it with ease.

The scaling experience is significantly better as well. Plus, DragonflyDB offers full compatibility with Redis, which was a huge win for us. We have a large codebase, and the migration required no changes to our code—DragonflyDB just worked seamlessly with our existing setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

We initially encountered an issue with database instance stability while running in Docker. However, the Dragonfly team quickly addressed it, and their CTO was even personally involved in solving the problem. This level of support was reassuring and greatly appreciated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cache for real-time data processing

Cache layer for data serving API

ML and statistics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Niel K.
NK
CTO
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Dragonfly?

Dragonfly has been a game-changer for our infrastructure. We experienced a magnitude speed improvement compared to our previous managed in memory store solution which has significantly enhanced our application's performance.

The integration process was surprisingly smooth and efficient. It only took our team about half a day to fully integrate with Dragonfly since it is redis client compatible. Further, customer support we have gotten has been exceptional. We have had a couple issues outside of business hours and their engineers have been very responsive (including the founder/CTO). This level of support and expertise gives us confidence in the product's ongoing development and our decision to adopt it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

Overall great experience, we did have one issue where we couldn't launch a new instance quickly during a critical spike of our traffic because of an internal quota DragonflyDB team had set. But they resolved very quickly. Nothing major! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem is solves for us is much better performance when running BullMQ. We ran BullMQ at scale on a cloud providers managed solution for in memory databases and found it was not even close to the efficiency with which even a medium sized instance of DragonflyDB can achieve. We have been able to cut costs by using DragonflyDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mafrozah S.
MS
Senior Associate Application Developer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Dragonfly?

What I like most about dragonfly is their commitment to creating a user friendly experience. The application was easy. I enjoyed the effort they put into ensuring the candidate gets proper feedback and support. I appreciate the responsiveness of the team and I am excited about the opportunity to join such an innovative company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

I believe there could be more transparency regarding the application timeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

The tools and resources provided by Dragonfly allow me to focus more on my core responsibilities rather than getting bogged down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Valerio B.
VB
CTO
Computer Software
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Dragonfly?

I like Dragonfly's ability to use all the computing resources of the machine it's running on. Customer support is also very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

Dragonfly Cloud could be improved in the onboarding phase. But it's a detail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Dragonfly as Queue broker. It's the most important component of our platform and the ability to use all the CPU core available on the server brought a significant performance improvement and cost savings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Annu S.
AS
Developer Advocate
Computer Software
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Dragonfly?

I'm impressed by Dragonfly DB because it is easy to use with full compatibility with Redis APIs. Some design decisions, like multi-threaded architecture and focus on asynchronous operations, make it suitable for distributed systems in the modern cloud-native era. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

I wish we could have access to more detailed guides and tutorials for different use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Dragonfly DB focuses on scalability by removing limitations due to single-threaded architecture. It also improves performance and lets us use system resources fully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pedro M.
PM
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Dragonfly?

One of the most significant advantages we've observed since switching to DragonflyDB is the remarkable performance improvement. It has efficiently handled our large datasets and complex queries, significantly reducing data retrieval times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

While our experience with DragonflyDB has been largely positive, there are a few areas for improvement. As a relatively new player in the market, some features and integrations that are available in more established databases like Redis are still in development or fine-tuning stages in DragonflyDB. This occasionally leads to minor inconveniences or the need for workarounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

By switching to DragonflyDB, we've observed a reduction in operational costs. Its efficient resource utilization means we can do more with less, translating into cost savings, especially in terms of server and infrastructure expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raine S.
RS
CPO
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Dragonfly?

We saw a 30x speed up compared to managed redis and a 10x reduction in cost. Only took us about a day to integrate. No brainer for anyone currently using redis.

The founding team is incredibly sharp and super responsive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

Its still an early stage company so there are some risks but I think they will grow quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Replce redis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pedro K.
PK
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Dragonfly?

The complete support of redis API a d awesome team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dragonfly?

Métrics are bot optimal.

Granda a dashboards are not optimal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Best caching Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.