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dragonfly

A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

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Store and retrieve data quickly in your applications without changing your existing code.

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A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

dragonfly has 31.1k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 1.2k times. dragonfly is written mainly in C++. It has been in active development since 2021. Its main topics are cache, cpp, database, fibers.

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What is dragonfly?

A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

Is dragonfly open source?

dragonfly is an open-source project.

Is dragonfly free?

Yes. dragonfly is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What language is dragonfly written in?

dragonfly is written mainly in C++.

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