All posts by Roman Gershman
Balanced vs. Unbalanced
Balance is essential in life. When our focus is limited to improving a single aspect of our life, we weaken the whole system.
The Value Benchmark: Dragonfly Cloud Beats ElastiCache on Every Dollar
Dragonfly outperforms ElastiCache in throughput, latency, and cost-efficiency, proving much higher value per dollar.
Dragonfly Is Not Redis: An Open Letter to the Community
Modern architecture, better performance, lower cost, and built for today’s needs and future scale. Dragonfly is not Redis.
Dragonfly vs. Valkey Benchmark: 4.5x Higher Throughput on Google Cloud
Dragonfly outperforms Valkey in throughput, performance stability, and memory efficiency, scaling linearly with CPU cores and excelling in high-concurrency, CPU-intensive workloads.
Announcing Dragonfly Swarm: Scaling In-Memory Data without Limits
Dragonfly Swarm redefines in-memory data scaling, combining vertical and horizontal scaling for terabyte-scale workloads with unmatched performance, simplicity, and cost efficiency.
Dragonfly Cloud vs. AWS ElastiCache: Product Breakdown
Compare the differences between Dragonfly Cloud and AWS ElastiCache, focusing on pricing, performance, scalability, and unique features to optimize your in-memory data store needs.
Dragonfly's New Sorted Set Implementation
This blog post dives into Dragonfly's innovative approach to enhancing the sorted set data type, showcasing a new B+ tree implementation that significantly reduces memory usage by up to 40% and improves performance.
The Unbearable Lightness of Horizontal Scaling
This post explores the limitations of horizontal scaling in terms of cluster reliability, load distribution, and cloud over-commitment. It also outlines design decisions that were made to allow Dragonfly, a drop-in Redis replacement, to scale vertically in order to handle...
Announcing the Kubernetes Operator for Dragonfly
We are thrilled to announce the latest addition to our in-memory data store - the Kubernetes operator for Dragonfly!
Redis vs. Dragonfly Scalability and Performance
A thorough benchmark comparison of throughput, latency, and memory utilization between Redis and Dragonfly.
DragonflyDB 2022 In Review
In 2022, a new technology and database project, Dragonfly, emerged, alongside the founding of DragonflyDB to shepherd and evolve it.
Infrastructure Should Be Boring
How we have built a boring infrastructure that everyone is excited about.
10k Stars
Dragonfly crossed the 10K GitHub stars milestone in just 75 days.
Dragonfly Cache Design
The design behind Dragonfly cache
Redis Analysis - Part 2: Simplicity
What simplicity means to you as a datastore user?
Redis Analysis - Part 1: Threading Model
Following my previous post, we are going to start with the "hottest potato"—the single-threaded vs. multi-threaded argument.
A prelude to analysis of Redis memory-store
Will Redis stay competitive in a few years without reinventing itself?