Dragonfly
Dragonfly: Dragonfly adds search, persistence, and scaling to a Redis-compatible datastore. Ranked #17 of 24 in In-Memory Databases by our editors (7.4/10); pricing: Paid; best for redis-compatible managed service with search features.
At a glance
- Editor score7.4 / 10
- PricingPaid
- Best forRedis-compatible managed service with search features
- Free planNo
- Paid from$36/mo
- DeploymentBoth
- Facts checked20 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Redis and Memcached API compatibility supports migration with minimal code changes
- Vector, faceted, JSON, and geospatial search capabilities
- Managed and self-managed deployment options with replication and failover
Where it doesn't
- No free plan is available
- Paid pricing starts at $36 per month
- SQL support is not included
Our verdict on Dragonfly
Dragonfly is a multi-threaded, shared-nothing in-memory datastore for real-time workloads. It supports Redis and Memcached APIs, making it suitable for teams considering a compatible datastore for caches, feature stores, queues, and other high-throughput applications. Its data capabilities include strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, JSON, vectors, geospatial data, and probabilistic structures. Replication, failover, snapshot-based persistence, backup, and SSD data tiering extend its use beyond a strictly volatile cache.
The managed Flex plan costs $36 per month and includes AWS, GCP, or Azure deployment, one-click provisioning, horizontal and vertical scaling, a monitoring dashboard, and Dragonfly team support. Business costs $2,000 per month and adds bring-your-own-cloud deployment, auto-scaling, SSO and MFA, a custom SLA, and dedicated support. Self-Managed supports cloud or on-premises deployment and includes LDAP authentication, role-based access control, enterprise support, and an SLA. There is no free plan, so teams evaluating the service need to account for a paid entry point.
Dragonfly also connects with tools and systems including BullMQ, ClickHouse, django-cacheops, Feast, LibreDB Studio, Magento, Redlock, Relay, and Sidekiq. Its API compatibility and deployment choices fit teams that want Redis- or Memcached-oriented application integration while adding vector and faceted search, JSON, and geospatial capabilities. Choose Dragonfly when managed operations, compatibility, persistence, failover, or richer search models matter. Teams requiring SQL support, a free starting tier, or a narrowly cache-focused product may prefer an alternative.
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Dragonfly fact sheet
| Free plan | No |
|---|---|
| Paid from | $36/mo |
| Deployment | Both |
| Data persistence | Yes |
| High availability | Yes |
| SQL support | No |
| Vector search | Yes |
| Included memory | Not verified |
| Supported data models | strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, JSON, vectors, geospatial data, probabilistic structures |
| Deployment | Cloud, Self-hosted |
| Compliance & security | SSO/SAML |
| Support | Community, Docs |
| Built for | Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate) |
| Integrations | 9 integrations: BullMQ, ClickHouse, django-cacheops, Feast, LibreDB Studio, Magento … See all → |
| Pricing | Paid (source) |
| Website | dragonflydb.io |
| Facts checked | 20 Sep 2026 |
Dragonfly integrations
Dragonfly lists 9 integrations on its own site.
- BullMQ
- ClickHouse
- django-cacheops
- Feast
- LibreDB Studio
- Magento
- Redlock
- Relay
- Sidekiq
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Alternatives to Dragonfly
- Couchbase ServerA broad in-memory platform with free production use and extensive database capabilities.9.4
- Apache IgniteOpen-source distributed SQL with in-memory speed, persistence, transactions, and compute.9.2
- InfinispanA Java-centric choice for clustered caching, persistence, replication, and search.9.0
See all Dragonfly alternatives →
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