Company
Date Published
Author
Roman Gershman
Word count
1947
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Dragonfly outperforms Valkey in throughput, performance stability, and memory efficiency, scaling linearly with CPU cores and excelling in high-concurrency, CPU-intensive workloads. Dragonfly's multi-threaded architecture allows it to scale nearly linearly with the number of vCPUs, combined with superior memory efficiency, making it a compelling choice for demanding in-memory data storage needs. In contrast, Valkey is bottlenecked by its main thread for CPU-intensive operations like ZADD, while Dragonfly demonstrates significantly greater memory efficiency and performs better under high concurrency. These benchmarks highlight the significant performance advantages of Dragonfly's architecture compared to Valkey.