Amazon ElastiCache vs Dragonfly
Amazon ElastiCache
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| Figure | Amazon ElastiCache | Dragonfly |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.09/mo | $36/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 3 |
| Spec score · In-Memory Databases | 9.4 (#1) | 8.1 (#9) |
| Deployment | Customers can run ElastiCache as a serverless cache or as a node-based cluster. | Dragonfly can be run locally via Docker, and its single binary can be deployed via Docker, Kubernetes, or elsewhere. |
| Security | ElastiCache supports encryption in transit and at rest, IAM authentication, Valkey or Redis OSS AUTH, and role-based access control. | Dragonfly Cloud lists RBAC, ACL, user access management, and administrative audit logs as security controls. |
| Use cases | AWS describes use cases including application data caching, semantic caching, data stores, session stores, and leaderboards. | The maker highlights caching, real-time feature serving, message queues, and sorted-set leaderboards as use cases. |
Plans
Amazon ElastiCache
- AWS Free TierFree
- Backup storage$0.09 a month
- ElastiCache Serverless$6 a month
- ElastiCache Serverless$6 a month
- Database Savings PlansPrice not published
- On-demand nodesPrice not published
In their own words
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache is a managed caching service compatible with Valkey, Memcached, and Redis OSS, with performance described as microsecond latency. Customers can deploy a serverless cache or a node-based cluster. ElastiCache Serverless monitors compute, memory, and network use and scales vertically and horizontally as demand changes. It replicates data across multiple Availability Zones and offers a 99.99% availability SLA for each cache. Listed uses include application and semantic caching, data and session stores, and leaderboards. It can act as a front-end cache for Amazon RDS, Aurora, DocumentDB, and DynamoDB, and improve performance with EC2 and EMR. Security options include encryption in transit and at rest, IAM authentication, Valkey or Redis OSS AUTH, and role-based access control. CloudWatch provides more than 40 operational metrics at no additional charge. Valkey serverless pricing starts at $6 a month, billed according to stored data in GB-hours and requests measured in ECPUs. Data tiering is unavailable with ElastiCache Serverless.
Dragonfly
Dragonfly has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.