Apache Cassandra vs memcached
A side-by-side look at Apache Cassandra and memcached. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Apache Cassandra
Databases
Apache Cassandra is a free, open-source, distributed NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure.
distributedscalablehigh-availabilityfault-tolerantwide-column-store
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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