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Memcached

  • Multi-node for partition of data (sharding)
  • No High Availability (replication)
  • Non-persistent
  • no backup and restore
  • Multi-threaded architecture
  • support Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) based auth
  • open source memory store

Caveats

  • multithreaded
  • no replication
  • no snapshots
  • no transactions
  • no pub/sub
  • no geospatial support
  • no Lua scripting
  • no high availability
  • non-persistent
  • no backups

use case

  • when is acceptable to lose your data.