# Dragonfly

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dragonfly/  
**Website:** https://www.dragonflydb.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 17.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Dragonfly Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Cache, Database, In-Memory, Key-Value Store, Redis, Memcached, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/dragonfly/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.