Memcached
Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system
★ 4.2
High-performance, distributed memory caching system. Simple key-value store designed for speeding up web applications by reducing database load.
free
Pricing
Yes
Self-Hostable
Features
- ✓ Simple key-value storage
- ✓ Distributed architecture
- ✓ Sub-millisecond latency
- ✓ LRU eviction
- ✓ Multi-threaded
- ✓ Protocol simplicity
- ✓ Memory efficient
- ✓ Easy horizontal scaling
Pros
- + Dead simple to use
- + Extremely fast
- + Battle-tested at scale
- + Multi-threaded performance
- + Easy to cluster
Cons
- − No persistence (cache only)
- − Limited data structures (key-value only)
- − No pub/sub or advanced features
- − Less versatile than Redis