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

andrewfromx 4y ago
Ouch C++ https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly why not rust? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33436268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33436268
- Alifatisk 4y ago
  Or CCured [1] 1. https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/safer-languages https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/safer-la...
- eggy 4y ago
  Or Ada/SPARK2014?
- bsg75 4y ago
  Why not $LANGUAGE ?
- andromeduck 4y ago
  Why not Fortran?
newaccount2023 4y ago
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
- 71a54xd 4y ago
  IMO, the only way that would be possible is if they buried some kind of telemetry in their code. I don't support that kind of thing, but you could also pass that off to investors as "trying".
- jjeaff 4y ago
  I don't think most commercial users are in the business of purposefully breaking licensing agreements. Even small startups have to worry about this because it generally comes up in due diligence for VC investment. The risk of a future lawsuit, even if small, generally outweigh the savings.
- monocasa 4y ago
  That's a great problem to have for a startup. "We have a ton of use that we can see through these proxy metrics, so the goal of this series c is, in addition to continuing to innovate on a product side, start investing in license auditing of companies that can't meaningfully change to another product quickly" is a pretty great pitch a few years down the line.
  - armatav 4y ago
    Unless you die because of a lack of revenue first.
erulabs 4y ago
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!
jacooper 4y ago
> 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.
mvandermeulen 4y ago
I thought KeyDB already provided what Dragonfly claims to do except better?

Ouch C++ https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly why not rust? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33436268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33436268

Alifatisk 4y ago
Or CCured [1] 1. https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/safer-languages https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/safer-la...
eggy 4y ago
Or Ada/SPARK2014?
bsg75 4y ago
Why not $LANGUAGE ?
andromeduck 4y ago
Why not Fortran?

newaccount2023 4y ago

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

71a54xd 4y ago
IMO, the only way that would be possible is if they buried some kind of telemetry in their code. I don't support that kind of thing, but you could also pass that off to investors as "trying".
jjeaff 4y ago
I don't think most commercial users are in the business of purposefully breaking licensing agreements. Even small startups have to worry about this because it generally comes up in due diligence for VC investment. The risk of a future lawsuit, even if small, generally outweigh the savings.
monocasa 4y ago
That's a great problem to have for a startup. "We have a ton of use that we can see through these proxy metrics, so the goal of this series c is, in addition to continuing to innovate on a product side, start investing in license auditing of companies that can't meaningfully change to another product quickly" is a pretty great pitch a few years down the line.
- armatav 4y ago
  Unless you die because of a lack of revenue first.

erulabs 4y ago

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!

jacooper 4y ago

> 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.

mvandermeulen 4y ago

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