10 alternatives to dragonfly

dragonflydb/dragonfly — A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached (31,816 stars, BUSL-1.1, database, testing, infra).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from dragonflydb/dragonfly itself (licence class: non-commercial), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

The alternatives in detail

• dicedb/dicedb
  Open-source, low-latency key/value engine built on Valkey with query subscriptions and hierarchical storage tiers.
  score 4.7/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 10,775 stars · 515 components · search them
• aio-libs/aiocache
  Asyncio cache manager for redis, memcached and memory
  score 4.7/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 1,437 stars · 9 components · search them
• pelikan-io/pelikan
  Pelikan is a framework for building local or distributed caches. It comes with a highly extensible architecture, best-in-class performance, and superb operational ergonomics. You can use it to replace most of Memcached o
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 295 stars · 222 components · search them
• gomodule/redigo
  Go client for Redis
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 9,846 stars · 16 components · search them
• long2ice/fastapi-cache
  fastapi-cache is a tool to cache fastapi response and function result, with backends support redis and memcached.
  score 4.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,864 stars · 10 components · search them
• vanilla-beauty/tiny-lsm
  A KV storage engine based on LSM Tree, supporting Redis RESP
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 333 stars · 57 components · search them
• redis/go-redis
  Redis Go client
  score 4.7/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 22,279 stars · 144 components · search them · alternatives
• killme2008/xmemcached
  High performance, easy to use multithreaded memcached client in java.
  score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 764 stars · 209 components · search them
• redis/redis-py
  Redis Python client
  score 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 13,652 stars · 264 components · search them
• pinterest/pymemcache
  A comprehensive, fast, pure-Python memcached client.
  score 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 843 stars · 12 components · search them

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