# dragonflydb/dragonfly

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.5 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 31,717 total · +4 stars on 2026-09-29 (UTC), ≈ 8 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Backend & databases · Language: C++ · Created: 2021-12-11 · Last push: 2026-09-29
- GitHub: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly · Homepage: https://www.dragonflydb.io/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/dragonflydb/dragonfly

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 4 stars so far today, about 8 expected by the end of the day.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @szepeviktor (784 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,270
- Issues and pull requests: 8,111
- Watchers: 172
- Average over the last week: 8 per day
- Usual pace: 19 per day
- Latest release: v2.0.0 (2026-09-16)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 12 days

09-18 2.2, 09-19 2.3, 09-20 2.1, 09-21 2.0, 09-22 1.9, 09-23 2.0, 09-24 1.3, 09-25 1.5, 09-26 1.5, 09-27 1.7, 09-28 1.7, 09-29 1.5

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-29 10:48 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.