Open Source Redis Enterprise Alternatives
A curated collection of the 1 best open source alternatives to Redis Enterprise.
The best open source alternative to Redis Enterprise is Dragonfly. If that doesn't suit you, we've compiled a ranked list of other open source Redis Enterprise alternatives to help you find a suitable replacement.
Redis Enterprise alternatives are mainly Databases. Browse these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Redis Enterprise.
A multi-threaded in-memory data store that speaks the Redis and Memcached protocols, aimed at vertical scaling on modern hardware.
Dragonfly is an in-memory data store meant to drop in where Redis or Memcached already sits. Both APIs are supported, so adoption needs no code change, and the case for switching is what happens on larger hardware, where a single-threaded store hits a ceiling the machine itself has not reached.
The published benchmarks bear that out. On a small instance Dragonfly and Redis perform comparably, but on a network-capable c6gn.16xlarge Dragonfly crossed 3.8 million queries per second, twenty-five times a single Redis process, reaching 10 million for SET and 15 million for GET in pipeline mode. It also measured 30 percent more memory efficient than Redis at idle, with no visible growth while snapshotting.
Configuration stays close to what Redis operators already know.
- Redis arguments: port, bind, requirepass, maxmemory, dir and dbfilename behave as expected.
- Memcached port: a separate port switches on the Memcached-compatible API.
- Cache mode: one adaptive algorithm evicts the least likely to be needed items near the memory limit.
- Snapshot cron: automatic backup snapshots scheduled in standard cron syntax at minute granularity.
- Admin console: an optional admin port serving both HTTP and RESP, bound separately if you wish.
Flags arrive from the command line, from a flagfile holding one entry per line, or from environment variables. Cluster mode is currently emulated only, and expiration ranges are limited to roughly eight years. Quick start guides and a build-from-source path both live in the repository.
