Aiven for Dragonfly® overview#

Aiven for Dragonfly is an advanced, high-scale, and Redis®* compatible in-memory database service that can be deployed in your preferred cloud environment. It provides lightning-fast data storage and retrieval capabilities, making it ideal for businesses that handle large-scale data operations.

Important

Aiven for Dragonfly® is currently a limited availability service. If you are interested in exploring this offering, reach out to our sales team at sales@Aiven.io for more information and access.

Dragonfly is designed to overcome the limitations of Redis Open Source Software (Redis OSS), especially under high-load conditions. While renowned for its speed and adaptability as an in-memory data repository, Redis encounters limitations when handling large-scale data management and achieving high throughput. Dragonfly addresses these challenges by enabling vertical scaling, optimizing hardware resources, and supporting larger memory footprints.

With Aiven for Dragonfly, businesses can handle workloads exceeding 1TB with more than 10 times the throughput performance of Redis OSS, along with reduced latency. This makes it an ideal solution for enterprises with growing data needs.

Features and benefits#

Aiven for Dragonfly offers numerous features and benefits:

  • Redis compatibility at scale: It is a seamless drop-in replacement for Redis, capable of handling extensive workloads with enhanced performance.

  • Optimized for large-scale operations: Dragonfly is specifically built to address the scalability and resource utilization limitations of Redis Open Source Software (Redis OSS).

  • Advanced performance: Dragonfly’s unique threading model and shared-nothing architecture allow it to scale vertically, enhancing its performance efficiency, especially in environments with heavy data loads.

  • Efficient backup and memory management: Improved snapshot capabilities lead to more efficient memory usage during backups.

  • High availability and replication: It includes active-passive replication and persistence capabilities, ensuring data reliability and consistency.

  • Ease of integration: Dragonfly integrates smoothly with existing systems, requiring no code changes, simplifying the adoption process.

Use cases#

  • Data-intensive enterprises: Ideal for businesses that necessitate robust, high-performance in-memory data storage and processing capabilities.

  • Scaling and performance needs: Perfectly suited for situations where the need for greater scalability and higher throughput goes beyond what Redis OSS can handle.