# Dragonfly Reviews **Vendor:** DragonflyDB **Category:** [Database as a Service (DBaaS) Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-as-a-service-dbaas) **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About Dragonfly Dragonfly is a drop-in Redis replacement, designed to meet the performance and efficiency requirements of modern cloud-based applications. Organizations that switch to Dragonfly require less hardware and achieve dramatically improved data performance. ## Dragonfly Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Dragonfly's **ease of use** refreshing, with seamless setup and no code changes needed for migration. (4 reviews) - Users commend the **fast and reliable performance** of Dragonfly, seamlessly handling high operations and data scalability. (4 reviews) - Users highlight the **cost-effectiveness** of Dragonfly, achieving 60% savings while enhancing performance and reliability. (3 reviews) - Users highlight the **easy setup** of Dragonfly, enjoying seamless migration and enhanced performance without code changes. (3 reviews) - Users highlight the **superior scalability** of Dragonfly, effortlessly managing vast data volumes and high operations loads. (3 reviews) - Data Migration (2 reviews) - Migration Ease (2 reviews) - Reliability (2 reviews) - Affordable (1 reviews) - Availability (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note the **limited features** of Dragonfly, particularly missing smaller instance sizes and maintenance notification options. (2 reviews) - Users note the **limited functionality** of Dragonfly, missing key features like maintenance windows and notifications. (1 reviews) - Users experienced initial **stability issues** with database instances in Docker, but support quickly resolved the concerns. (1 reviews) ## Dragonfly Reviews ### 1. A pleasurable experience with Dragonfly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** I've had a great experience working with both the open-source and the managed solutions for Dragonfly. The flexibility and performance have been excellent for my needs. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** The only thing I would like to see improved is the ability to use smaller instances. For some of my smaller workloads, an instance size of 1GB or less would be ideal, but the current minimum is 3GB. **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dragonfly is solving our need for a high-performance, in-memory data store for various application workloads. The primary benefit is the speed and efficiency it brings to our data caching and management, which significantly improves the overall performance of our applications. ### 2. Good performance and pricing, very response support team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben T. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2025 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** We were previously using Redis, but due to slow version updates and a lack of region support, we needed to find an alternative. Dragonfly provided a compatible API, and they provisioned resources in the region we required within 24 hours. We had a few initial setup questions, which the support team was quick to respond to. Since setting up our Dragonfly services have been reliable and met our performance expectations. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** Some advanced Redis features are not supported yet, but nothing we depend on. **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Job queues, user session storage and caching. ### 3. Fantastic Redis replacement for Sidekiq **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2025 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** Dragonfly was very easy to implement in our AWS stack. We replaced an existing Redis that was used for Sidekiq. We saw a reduction in costs and improved performance. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** The minimum instance size of 3GB. It would be great if there were smaller instances that we could use for smaller workloads **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Dragonfly to power our Sidekiq instances. This has replaced Redis ### 4. Dragonfly: Fast, Reliable, and Easy to Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhawani S. | Lead Software Engineer, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** Dragonfly is fast, reliable, and easy to use. We tested it with up to 3 million queries per second (~250GB memory) on a 22-core instance with one master and three replicas. It worked well for reads and writes isolation, disaster recovery, and handling large data sets. It's a great alternative to Redis affordable, high-performing, and fully supports Redis APIs, so no code changes are needed. Perfect for teams wanting better performance at a lower cost. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** Overall, our experience has been excellent. Dragonfly is actively improving, and the team is responsive on Discord. They regularly add new features based on user requests, which is a big plus! **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We primarily use Dragonfly for key-value operations and high-throughput use cases. Its multithreaded, shared-nothing architecture allows us to achieve high throughput with fewer nodes, significantly reducing the overhead of instance management. ### 5. The Redis you always wanted! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denis D. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** Our experience with Dragonfly has been extremely smooth and exciting! With Dragonfly Cloud, we replaced our huge and expensive self-hosted single-instance Redis-based cache on AWS with a faster, managed cluster on Dragonfly Cloud. This led to better application performance, 60% lower costs, and improved solution reliability. The migration was as easy as changing the endpoints from Redis to Dragonfly — no code changes were required. Scaling clusters up and down is so easy and smooth! **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** Although most of the necessary features are already in place (easy cluster spin-up, rolling updates, RBAC, etc.), we still lack some, such as the ability to set up maintenance windows for clusters and get notifications about planned maintenance or official Terraform provider. However, the Dragonfly team is very customer-oriented and always tries to find a suitable solution if a required feature is not generally available. **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Dragonfly for storing a key-value cache ### 6. DragonflyDB is a game-changer! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vova E. | Senior Data Engineer (Team Lead), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** DragonflyDB has been a game-changer for us in terms of performance and scalability. We needed a more powerful alternative to Redis that could handle large keys like hashmaps and sorted sets, and DragonflyDB has delivered impressively. We’re managing over 300GB of data with a load of up to 500k operations per second, and DragonflyDB has been able to handle it with ease. The scaling experience is significantly better as well. Plus, DragonflyDB offers full compatibility with Redis, which was a huge win for us. We have a large codebase, and the migration required no changes to our code—DragonflyDB just worked seamlessly with our existing setup. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** We initially encountered an issue with database instance stability while running in Docker. However, the Dragonfly team quickly addressed it, and their CTO was even personally involved in solving the problem. This level of support was reassuring and greatly appreciated. **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cache for real-time data processing Cache layer for data serving API ML and statistics ### 7. Insanely scalable in memory datastore **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niel K. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** Dragonfly has been a game-changer for our infrastructure. We experienced a magnitude speed improvement compared to our previous managed in memory store solution which has significantly enhanced our application's performance. The integration process was surprisingly smooth and efficient. It only took our team about half a day to fully integrate with Dragonfly since it is redis client compatible. Further, customer support we have gotten has been exceptional. We have had a couple issues outside of business hours and their engineers have been very responsive (including the founder/CTO). This level of support and expertise gives us confidence in the product's ongoing development and our decision to adopt it. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** Overall great experience, we did have one issue where we couldn't launch a new instance quickly during a critical spike of our traffic because of an internal quota DragonflyDB team had set. But they resolved very quickly. Nothing major! **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem is solves for us is much better performance when running BullMQ. We ran BullMQ at scale on a cloud providers managed solution for in memory databases and found it was not even close to the efficiency with which even a medium sized instance of DragonflyDB can achieve. We have been able to cut costs by using DragonflyDB ### 8. Good choice for modern web apps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** Easy to integrate and very fast in combination with a very competitive pricing **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** Sometimes specific features that are well known from Redis are missing, like the Redis search, etc. **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it for my AI Chat as a cache layer and for other feature to speed them up ### 9. My Thoughts on Dragonfly Company **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mafrozah S. | Senior Associate Application Developer , Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** What I like most about dragonfly is their commitment to creating a user friendly experience. The application was easy. I enjoyed the effort they put into ensuring the candidate gets proper feedback and support. I appreciate the responsiveness of the team and I am excited about the opportunity to join such an innovative company. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** I believe there could be more transparency regarding the application timeline. **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** The tools and resources provided by Dragonfly allow me to focus more on my core responsibilities rather than getting bogged down ### 10. Unlock scalability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Valerio B. | CTO, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** I like Dragonfly's ability to use all the computing resources of the machine it's running on. Customer support is also very good. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** Dragonfly Cloud could be improved in the onboarding phase. But it's a detail. **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Dragonfly as Queue broker. It's the most important component of our platform and the ability to use all the CPU core available on the server brought a significant performance improvement and cost savings. ### 11. In-Memory database with focus on distributed systems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Annu S. | Developer Advocate, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** I'm impressed by Dragonfly DB because it is easy to use with full compatibility with Redis APIs. Some design decisions, like multi-threaded architecture and focus on asynchronous operations, make it suitable for distributed systems in the modern cloud-native era. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** I wish we could have access to more detailed guides and tutorials for different use cases. **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dragonfly DB focuses on scalability by removing limitations due to single-threaded architecture. It also improves performance and lets us use system resources fully. ### 12. DragonflyDB: A High-Performance Alternative to Redis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pedro M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** One of the most significant advantages we've observed since switching to DragonflyDB is the remarkable performance improvement. It has efficiently handled our large datasets and complex queries, significantly reducing data retrieval times. **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** While our experience with DragonflyDB has been largely positive, there are a few areas for improvement. As a relatively new player in the market, some features and integrations that are available in more established databases like Redis are still in development or fine-tuning stages in DragonflyDB. This occasionally leads to minor inconveniences or the need for workarounds. **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** By switching to DragonflyDB, we've observed a reduction in operational costs. Its efficient resource utilization means we can do more with less, translating into cost savings, especially in terms of server and infrastructure expenses. ### 13. Fast Cheap and Reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raine S. | CPO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** We saw a 30x speed up compared to managed redis and a 10x reduction in cost. Only took us about a day to integrate. No brainer for anyone currently using redis. The founding team is incredibly sharp and super responsive **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** Its still an early stage company so there are some risks but I think they will grow quickly **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Replce redis ### 14. Very good experience and support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pedro K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** The complete support of redis API a d awesome team **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** Métrics are bot optimal. Granda a dashboards are not optimal **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best caching ### 15. Great experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Dragonfly?** Awesome support and features from Dragonfly **What do you dislike about Dragonfly?** Metrics and Dashboards could be improved **What problems is Dragonfly solving and how is that benefiting you?** Redis caching - [View Dragonfly pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/dragonflydb-dragonfly/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-22+22%3A43%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=1ec0c1e5-edb8-425a-8c00-715f87701714&secure%5Btoken%5D=2587d7e92ef22f5f30c7a4c1ccc5861549e1563a5909c10c8d95dca02a61e958&format=llm_user) ## Dragonfly Integrations - [BullMQ](https://www.g2.com/products/bullmq/reviews) - [Next.js](https://www.g2.com/products/next-js/reviews) - [Ruby on Rails](https://www.g2.com/products/ruby-on-rails/reviews) - [Sidekiq Pro](https://www.g2.com/products/sidekiq-pro/reviews) ## Dragonfly Features **Infrastructure Provision** - Public Cloud - Private Cloud - Hybrid Cloud - Bare Metal - High-Performance Computing (HPC) - Virtual Machines (VMs) - Edge Computing - Virtual Networks **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Configuration** - Application Performance - Orchestration - Database Monitoring - Anomaly Detection - Network Security **Management** - Pay by Usage - Usage Tracking - Performance Tracking **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Database Administration** - Provisioning - Governance - Auditing **Functionality** - Resource Auto-Scaling **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Availability** - Scalability - Backup - Archiving - Indexing **Security** - Data Masking - Authentication And Single Sign-On - Data Anonymization **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Data Management** - Data Replication - Advanced Data Analytics **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Dragonfly Alternatives - [MongoDB Atlas](https://www.g2.com/products/mongodb-atlas/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (349 reviews) - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (736 reviews) - [ScyllaDB](https://www.g2.com/products/scylladb/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (423 reviews)