• djbdns on FreeBSD
• djbdns on CentOS
• Knot
• NSD
• MaraDNS

BIND needs no install instructions as it's very portable and already installed on most Unix-like systems. All nameservers except tinydns and MaraDNS can read from BIND-style zone files. Like tinydns, NSD compiles all the data into a database which it serves from.

• Comparison of DNS server software at Wikipedia
• Alternative DNS Servers at Amazon

TL:DR; BIND aims to support every DNS feature possible. NSD, Knot, and Yadifa aim to be fast and secure. Tinydns is secure and fast.

• NSD4 performance measurements comparing BIND, NSD, Knot, and Yadifa
• Knot DNS Benchmarks with BIND, Knot, NSD, and PowerDNS
• Yadifa benchmarks with Knot, NSD, and BIND 9

TL;DR NSD, Knot, and Yadifa scale really really well. Tinydns was always faster than BIND. PowerDNS is comparable to BIND.

Comparison of managed DNS service providers.

• Comparison & Analysis of Managed DNS
• DNS reviews

• DNS Security Issues summarized by Sam (author of MaraDNS)
• CVE details

Where it wasn't much work coughnot BINDcough, I excluded vulnerabilities that applied to the recursive portions of a DNS package. Example: djbdns had 3 CVEs for dnscache and 0 for tinydns.

TL;DR In order of fewest vulnerabilities: tinydns (0), Knot (0), NSD (2), MaraDNS (12), PowerDNS (8), BIND (78)