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Redis vs Memcache

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Redis vs Memcache.md

When deciding between Memcached and Redis, here are a few questions to consider:

• Is object caching your primary goal, for example to offload your database? If so, use Memcached.
• Are you interested in as simple a caching model as possible? If so, use Memcached.
• Are you planning on running large cache nodes, and require multithreaded performance with utilization of multiple cores? If so, use Memcached.
• Do you want the ability to scale your cache horizontally as you grow? If so, use Memcached.
• Does your app need to atomically increment or decrement counters? If so, use either Redis or Memcached.
• Are you looking for more advanced data types, such as lists, hashes, and sets? If so, use Redis.
• Does sorting and ranking datasets in memory help you, such as with leaderboards? If so, use Redis.
• Are publish and subscribe (pub/sub) capabilities of use to your application? If so, use Redis.
• Is persistence of your key store important? If so, use Redis.