Jul 28, 2025 · What is Memcached? Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web …

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memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but originally intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating …

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering. Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple …

This basic tutorial shows via pseudocode how you can get started with integrating memcached into your application. Memcached is not an automatic application accelerator: it must be …

Memcached can scale with a large number of connections very simply. The amount of memory overhead per connection is low (even lower if the connection is idle), so don’t sweat setting it …

Memcached prefers to keep deployment as simple as possible and does not support these libraries. Further, very few users ever break 100k requests per second on a single node, so …

This post introduced two improvements which affect memory efficiency and were enabled by default in memcached 1.5.0. There are many new and interesting ideas in the software …

This is a short list of how we (the developers and users) expect memcached to perform. If you’re seeing different, it’s likely a configuration problem at some layer.

Memcached on its own is just a key/value storage daemon. Installing it does not automatically accelerate or cache any of your data: Your applications need to be programmed to utilize this …