A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
Speaks the memcached protocol as well as Redis's.
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| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragonfly | Full replacement | 32k | Other | Source available | Yes | C++ | v2.0.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| Valkey | Partial | 27k | BSD-3-Clause | Open source | Yes | C | 9.1.2 | 2026-10-06 |
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A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.
Serves as a cache in memcached's place, but through the Redis protocol.
- Language
- C
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
- Stars
- 27k
- Latest
- 9.1.2
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
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About Memcached
- Language
- C
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
- Stars
- 14k
- Last push
- 2026-09-11