What is Memcached and how it works?
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What is Memcached and how it works?
Memcached is an open source, distributed memory object caching system that alleviates database load to speed up dynamic Web applications. The system caches data and objects in memory to minimize the frequency with which an external database or API (application program interface) must be accessed.
Should I use Memcached?
You should use memcache when you want faster page loads and/or more scalability. In fact, if you expect or are hoping that your website or mobile app will need to scale at some point then it is often a good development practice to use memcache from the start.
What Memcached is good for?
Memcached is a simple volatile cache server. It allows you to store key/value pairs where the value is limited to being a string up to 1MB. It’s good at this, but that’s all it does. You can access those values by their key at extremely high speed, often saturating available network or even memory bandwidth.
Who created memcache?
Brad Fitzpatrick
Memcached was first developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for his website LiveJournal, on May 22, 2003. It was originally written in Perl, then later rewritten in C by Anatoly Vorobey, then employed by LiveJournal.
Is memcache a memory?
Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering. Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple design promotes quick deployment, ease of development, and solves many problems facing large data caches.
Is Memcached persistent?
Memcached is easily scaled vertically, as it is multithreaded. When deciding whether to use Redis or Memcached a major difference between these two is data persistence. While Redis is an in-memory (mostly) data store and it is not volatile, Memcached is an in-memory cache and it is volatile.
What is memcached siteground?
The Memcached service, that is part of SuperCacher, uses our own implementation of the popular Memcached system. It speeds up database calls, API calls, and page rendering by storing data and objects in the server’s RAM to reduce the number of times a database is queried.
Does WordPress use memcached?
WordPress Memcached Plugin There are plenty of WordPress cache plugins available on the market. Most of them support Memcached like W3TC, one of the most widely used cache plugins allow you to configure Memcached.
Why is memcache better than Redis?
Memcached could be preferable when caching relatively small and static data, such as HTML code fragments. Memcached’s internal memory management, while not as sophisticated as that of Redis, is more efficient in the simplest use cases because it consumes comparatively less memory resources for metadata.
How fast is memcache?
memcached can process over 50 million keys per second on a 48 core machine using only RAM and heavy batching.