Dragonfly

Dragonfly is a modern in-memory datastore built for performance and scalability, designed as a drop-in replacement for Redis and Memcached with improved efficiency and throughput. Dragonfly uses a multi-threaded, shared-nothing architecture to deliver significantly higher throughput with lower latency than Redis. It is fully compatible with Redis and Memcached APIs, requiring no code changes to migrate existing workloads.

Dragonfly is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Cache, Database, In-Memory, Key-Value Store, and Redis.

Dragonfly’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, FAQ, and 10 more developer resources.

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15.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

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CacheDatabaseIn-MemoryKey-Value StoreRedisMemcachedOpen Source

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Composite quality — 15.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

CommandReference

CommandReference

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Discord

Discord

FAQ

FAQ

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

License

License

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Cloud

Cloud

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dragonfly
name: Dragonfly
description: Dragonfly is a modern in-memory datastore built for performance and scalability, designed as a drop-in replacement
  for Redis and Memcached with improved efficiency and throughput. Dragonfly uses a multi-threaded, shared-nothing architecture
  to deliver significantly higher throughput with lower latency than Redis. It is fully compatible with Redis and Memcached
  APIs, requiring no code changes to migrate existing workloads.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dragonfly.png
tags:
- Cache
- Database
- In-Memory
- Key-Value Store
- Redis
- Memcached
- Open Source
url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dragonfly-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dragonflydb
- type: Website
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/getting-started
- type: CommandReference
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/category/command-reference
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/integrations
- type: SDKs
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/development/sdks
- type: Cloud
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/cloud
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/dragonflydb
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
- type: Discord
  url: https://discord.gg/HsPjXGVH85
- type: FAQ
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/about/faq
- type: License
  url: https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/about/license
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com