Dragonfly vs. Redis
A Drop-In Redis Replacement That’s 25x More Performant
Redis built the foundation for in-memory data. Dragonfly rebuilt it for the cloud era — delivering up to 25x higher throughput, 80% lower cost, and zero operational complexity.
Fully Redis-compatible. Instantly faster. Backed by open benchmarks you can verify yourself.
Redis Struggles to Scale. Dragonfly Doesn’t.
Redis’s single-threaded core was revolutionary in 2009 — but in 2025, it’s not able to scale to handle demanding modern workloads. Redis scales via an inefficient clutter architecture that wastes resources and is overly complex, introducing network bandwidth issues, performance headaches, and ballooning cloud bills.
Dragonfly takes a different approach: a multi-threaded, non-locking architecture that uses every CPU core in parallel. The result is simple: vertical and horizontal scalability at the same time that results in much better performance on a smaller infrastructure footprint.
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- Memcached API Compatibility
- Snapshotting Speed
- Lua
- Async Core
- Threading Model
- Deployment & Operations
- Scalability
Dragonfly
- Memcached API Compatibility
- 3.9M
- Snapshotting Speed1260MB/s
- Lua5.4.4
- Async Core
- Threading ModelMulti-Threaded & Shared Nothing
- 40% Less Memory with Dashtable
- Deployment & OperationsSimplified Operations
- ScalabilityVertical & Horizontal Scaling
Redis
- Memcached API Compatibility
- 150K
- Snapshotting Speed107MB/s
- Lua5.1
- Async Core
- Threading ModelSingle-Threaded with Enhanced I/O
- Traditional Hash Table
- Deployment & OperationsComplex Cluster Management
- ScalabilityPremature Horizontal Scaling
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Real-World Benchmarks
25x More Throughput. 17x Faster Reads. Same Hardware.
In standardized AWS benchmarks (c6gn.16xlarge instances, YCSB workloads), Dragonfly consistently outperformed Redis across read-heavy and write-heavy operations — with no tuning or clustering required.
Test details: AWS c6gn.16xlarge instances (64 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM) running YCSB default workloads.
Why Teams Switch to Dragonfly
Simpler scaling
One node replaces many
Predictable performance
Linear throughput with modern hardware
Instant migration
Drop-in compatible with Redis clients.
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