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Hazelcast vs memcached

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

Hazelcast

Hazelcast

Development

Hazelcast is an open source in-memory data grid that enables distribution of data and computation across servers for scalability, speed, and resilience. It is commonly used for caching, processing streams, and clustering.

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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.

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