DragonflyDB 2022 In Review
Tags: redis, database, architecture
Published: 2023-08-03 16:00:00

2022 saw the emergence of a new technology and database project ([Dragonfly](https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly)) as well as the founding of a new company (DragonflyDB) to shepard and evolve it. As this exciting year comes to a close, we'd like to look back on the progress we’ve made in 2022 as well as thank everyone in the community who helped make it possible.

## From code to product

At the beginning of 2022, Dragonfly was little more than an idea with the beginning of a codebase aimed at making that idea a reality. The idea was to rethink what an in-memory datastore should look and behave like, with the goal of building something significantly more performant and easier to scale than Redis. Today Dragonfly is a real product that supports a wide variety of use cases. That progress was made through a lot of contributors shipping a lot of code.

|               | Commands Supported | Data Structures                                | Lines Of Code |
| ------------- | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------- |
| January 2022  | 16                 | Strings only                                   | 22,100        |
| December 2022 | 196                | Strings, HMAP, SET, LIST,<br/>Sorted Set, JSON | 98,270        |

## From solo to project

At the beginning of 2022 Dragonfly was a private project that no one had ever heard of with exactly one contributor: [me](https://github.com/romange). We made the project [public on May 31st](/blog/announcing-dragonfly) and since then everything has changed. The community that quickly formed made it clear that we were far from alone in our desire for a better in-memory datastore. Today Dragonfly is a blossoming community project with over 16,000 Github stars, over 40 contributors, and [a growing Discord community](https://discord.com/invite/HsPjXGVH85).

|               | Stars | Contributors | Discord Members |
| ------------- | ----- | ------------ | --------------- |
| January 2022  | 0     | 1            | 0               |
| December 2022 | 16.4K | 41           | 283             |

## From project to company

I knew early on that in order to succeed in my goal of building the most performant in-memory datastore on the market, I would also need to found a company to shepherd the project. Databases are technically challenging and require a lot of resources to build as well as to take to market in a way that can adequately serve a wide array of customers.In 2022 I co-founded DragonflyDB with [Oded Poncz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/poncz/) and since then a small but mighty team has formed to grow the project and serve DragonflyDB customers.

|               | Employees | Countries | Languages Spoken |
| ------------- | --------- | --------- | ---------------- |
| January 2022  | 0         | 1         | 2                |
| December 2022 | 9         | 4         | 7                |

Once again, thank you to everyone in the Dragonfly community who helped make 2022 a great year and the start of something very exciting. We can’t wait for even bigger and better things in 2023.

**Thank you for your support!**

Roman