All posts by Roman Gershman

Announcing Dragonfly Swarm: Scaling In-Memory Data Without Limits
Dragonfly Swarm redefines in-memory data scaling, combining vertical and horizontal scaling for terabyte-scale workloads with unmatched performance, simplicity, and cost efficiency.

Dragonfly Cloud vs. AWS ElastiCache: Product Breakdown
Compare the differences between Dragonfly Cloud and AWS ElastiCache, focusing on pricing, performance, scalability, and unique features to optimize your in-memory data store needs.

Dragonfly's New Sorted Set Implementation
This blog post dives into Dragonfly's innovative approach to enhancing the sorted set data type, showcasing a new B+ tree implementation that significantly reduces memory usage by up to 40% and improves performance.

The Unbearable Lightness of Horizontal Scaling
This post explores the limitations of horizontal scaling in terms of cluster reliability, load distribution, and cloud over-commitment. It also outlines design decisions that were made to allow Dragonfly, a drop-in Redis replacement, to scale vertically in order to handle...

Announcing the Kubernetes Operator for Dragonfly
We are thrilled to announce the latest addition to our in-memory data store - the Kubernetes operator for Dragonfly!

Redis vs. Dragonfly Scalability and Performance
A thorough benchmark comparison of throughput, latency, and memory utilization between Redis and Dragonfly.

DragonflyDB 2022 In Review
In 2022, a new technology and database project, Dragonfly, emerged, alongside the founding of DragonflyDB to shepherd and evolve it.

Balanced vs Unbalanced
Balance is essential in life. When our focus is limited to improving a single aspect of our life, we weaken the whole system.

Infrastructure should be boring
How we have built a boring infrastructure that everyone is excited about

10k Stars
Dragonfly crossed the 10K GitHub stars milestone in just 75 days.

Dragonfly Cache Design
The design behind Dragonfly cache

Redis Analysis - Part 2: Simplicity
What simplicity means to you as a datastore user?

Redis Analysis - Part 1: Threading model
Single-threaded vs Multi-threaded

A prelude to analysis of Redis memory-store
Will Redis stay competitive in a few years without reinventing itself?