dragonflydb/dragonfly

A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

Backend & databasesC++#memcached#multi-threading#redis#cpp#fibers

2.2 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

Dragonfly is a multi-threaded in-memory data store compatible with the Redis and Memcached APIs, offering higher throughput and better memory efficiency than them. It works as a drop-in replacement for Redis/Memcached without code changes.

Useful for

Replace Redis with Dragonfly in an existing app without code changes
Run a high-throughput cache on a multi-core server
Reduce memory usage for the same cached dataset

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

13 stars so far today, about 19 expected by the end of the day.
Over the last two days the pace is 2.1× that of the previous week and a half.
GitHub Trending C++ today: #5, +26 stars.
Recent forks include notable developers: @samber (2,319 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 31,598
Stars in a day: 19
Forks: 1,264
Issues and pull requests: 8,042
Watchers: 171
Language: C++
Latest release: v2.0.0 · September 16, 2026
Created: December 11, 2021
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #5, +26 stars

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