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Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M

by FeaturelessBug on 3/21/23, 4:06 PM with 13 comments

  • by erulabs on 3/21/23, 5:28 PM

    I’ve yet to see someone not terrified of redis cluster mode. Everyone wants to jump ship for some new product. In a decade of defending Redis from “buzzwordDB” replacements (its multi threaded!!!) I’ve not heard a single reasonable argument against Redis. Did Aerospike destroy Redis yet?

    Good luck dragonfly - and congrats on the raise - but you’ll have to pry reliable Redis from my cold dead hands!

  • by andrewfromx on 3/21/23, 4:12 PM

  • by jacooper on 3/21/23, 7:05 PM

    > The jury’s out on that — TechCrunch can’t independently confirm those claims. But for what it’s worth, the open source Dragonfly, which reached version 1.0 this week, already has some uptake — and investment.

    Its not open source, the BSL is not an open source license, rather a source available one.

  • by mvandermeulen on 3/21/23, 8:17 PM

    I thought KeyDB already provided what Dragonfly claims to do except better?

  • by newaccount2023 on 3/21/23, 4:18 PM

    no one will honor this license

    commercial users know full well a team of less than ten people can never hope to track down license violators while still doing dev work