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ØMQ vs memcached

A side-by-side look at ØMQ and memcached. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

ØMQ

ØMQ

Development

ØMQ (also known as ZeroMQ) is an open-source messaging library that provides a flexible lightweight abstraction for distributed and concurrent applications. It offers a socket API for building fast and efficient asynchronous message-based applications.

messagingdistributed-systemsconcurrencysocketsopen-source
memcached

memcached

Network & Admin

Memcached is an open source, high-performance distributed memory object caching system. It is used to speed up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load for reading/writing frequently accessed data.

cachingmemoryperformance

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