Database

Memcached

Memcached in practice - the slab allocator, LRU eviction, client-side sharding, the cas primitive, and why having no replication is a feature.

Read the Memcached guide

Where Memcached sits

How this component relates to the rest of the stack. Items without a link are not covered here yet.

Depends on

Must be present for this to run

Alternatives

Solves a similar problem differently

Memcached release support

1 supported
ReleaseLatestReleasedEnd of lifeStatus
1.61.6.45Mar 2020not publishedSupported

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