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Lwan vs memcached

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

Lwan

Lwan

Network & Admin

Lwan is a high-performance and lightweight web server. It is designed to handle thousands of concurrent connections with little memory footprint. Lwan achieves high performance through an event loop model and other optimizations.

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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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