dragonfly
dragonfly is A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached. Contribute to dragonflydb/dragonfly development by creating an account on GitHub.. It is ranked #1087 on the Dev Radar, in Databases, first seen 16 days ago and shared in 1 post (3.5k views).
What people said about dragonfly on X
Someone looked at Redis, looked at modern multi-core servers, and decided the whole thing deserved another attempt. That project is Dragonfly. Instead of centering execution around one main thread, Dragonfly partitions the keyspace into shards and lets different threads own different slices of data. The idea is…
— @techNmak, 16 days ago · 44 likes · see the post
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dragonfly in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #1087 of 1355
- Shared in 1 post by 1 account: @techNmak
- 3.5k views on those posts
- First seen 16 days ago, last shared 16 days ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: open source
- Market: Databases
FAQ
What is dragonfly?
A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached. Contribute to dragonflydb/dragonfly development by creating an account on GitHub. It was first shared on X 16 days ago and is ranked #1087 on the Dev Radar.
Is dragonfly free?
It is open source.
Who shared dragonfly?
1 account on X, including @techNmak, in 1 post totalling 3.5k views.
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