
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.
Compare Dragonfly to these popular alternatives based on real-world usage and developer feedback.

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.

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 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.

It is an application that uses in-memory database technology that allows the processing of massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine allows it to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk.

It is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale

MemSQL converges transactions and analytics for sub-second data processing and reporting. Real-time businesses can build robust applications on a simple and scalable infrastructure that complements and extends existing data pipelines.

NCache is an open source distributed cache for .NET & .NET Core (Apache 2.0) by Alachisoft. NCache provides an extremely fast and linearly scalable distributed cache that caches application data and reduces expensive database trips.

It perfectly complements Azure database services such as Cosmos DB. It provides a cost-effective solution to scale read and write throughput of your data tier. Store and share database query results, session states, static contents, and more using a common cache-aside pattern.

LokiJS is a document oriented database written in javascript, published under MIT License. Its purpose is to store javascript objects as documents in a nosql fashion and retrieve them with a similar mechanism. Runs in node (including cordova/phonegap and node-webkit), nativescript and the browser.

KeyDB is a fully open source database that aims to make use of all hardware resources. KeyDB makes it possible to breach boundaries often dictated by price and complexity.

It is designed to give you the flexibility, scalability, and performance that you want, as well as the reliability and manageability that you need in mission-critical applications

It is an extremely simple Golang-based in-memory Key-Value store that speaks the Redis dialect.

VoltDB is a fundamental redesign of the RDBMS that provides unparalleled performance and scalability on bare-metal, virtualized and cloud infrastructures. VoltDB is a modern in-memory architecture that supports both SQL + Java with data durability and fault tolerance.

It is an open source (MIT licensed), in-memory geolocation data store, spatial index, and realtime geofence. It supports a variety of object types including lat/lon points, bounding boxes, XYZ tiles, Geohashes, and GeoJSON.

It is a column-based relational time-series database with in-memory abilities. The database is commonly used in high-frequency trading to store, analyze, process, and retrieve large data sets at high speed. kdb+ has the ability to handle billions of records and analyzes data within a database.

Beringei is a high performance time series storage engine. Time series are commonly used as a representation of statistics, gauges, and counters for monitoring performance and health of a system.

BuntDB is a low-level, in-memory, key/value store in pure Go. It persists to disk, is ACID compliant, and uses locking for multiple readers and a single writer. It supports custom indexes and geospatial data. It's ideal for projects that need a dependable database and favor speed over data size.

MapDB provides Java Maps, Sets, Lists, Queues and other collections backed by off-heap or on-disk storage. It is a hybrid between java collection framework and embedded database engine. It is free and open-source under Apache license.

SummitDB is an in-memory, NoSQL key/value database. It persists to disk, uses the Raft consensus algorithm, is ACID compliant, and built on a transactional and strongly-consistent model. It supports custom indexes, geospatial data, JSON documents, and user-defined JS scripting.

It is an immutable in-memory database and Datalog query engine in Clojure and ClojureScript. It is meant to run inside the browser. It is cheap to create, quick to query and ephemeral. You create a database on page load, put some data in it, track changes, do queries and forget about it when the user closes the page.

It is a NoSQL indexing and Query Engine, for retrieving objects matching SQL-like queries from Java collections, with ultra-low latency

It is a highly scalable, in-memory NoSQL time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data. It has a KVS (Key-Value Store)-type data model that is suitable for sensor data stored in a timeseries. It is a database that can be easily scaled-out according to the number of sensors.

It provides an essential set of data store features, such as transactions, indexes, and query language (SQL-like queries). It also handles common functions such as messaging, event processing, data access, and transaction processing (ACID compliant) completely and exclusively in-memory.

It is an open-source in-memory database for enabling real-time web apps. Build fast, scalable apps that feel silky smooth for users. Build lightning fast apps with instantaneous interactions.

It is a fast open source in-memory document-oriented database offering security, persistence, distribution, availability, and an SQL-like query language.

It is designed to be serverless from day 1. You create the database without knowing about the backend servers. We maintain it, we deal with any issue if anything happens.

It is a fast, in-memory data store written in pure JavaScript, heavily inspired by Redis and Memcached. It is capable of handling multiple data types, including strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, hashes, and geospatial indexes.

It is an in-memory immutable data manager that provides out-of-box high-level abstraction and zero-copy in-memory sharing for distributed data in big data tasks, such as graph analytics (e.g., GraphScope), numerical computing (e.g., Mars), and machine learning.