CacheManager vs Lazy Cache

CacheManager

CacheManager is an open source caching abstraction layer for .NET written in C#. It supports various cache providers and implements many advanced features. (by MichaCo)

Caching Cachemanager C# Cache Redis Memcached .NET dotnet-core

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cachemanager.michaco.net

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Lazy Cache

An easy to use thread safe in-memory caching service with a simple developer friendly API for c# (by alastairtree)

Caching C# Cache Inmemory Objectcache Lazy Performance

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CacheManager		Lazy Cache
	Project
3	Mentions	9
2,320	Stars	1,690
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
12 months ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C#	Language	C#
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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CacheManager

Posts with mentions or reviews of CacheManager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.

Caching in .NET
2 projects | dev.to | 8 May 2023

Leverage Frameworks and Libraries: Numerous libraries and frameworks are available for .NET that can simplify caching implementation and management. Examples include CacheManager, EasyCaching, and LazyCache. Evaluate these options to see if they meet your requirements and can help streamline your caching strategy.
Some useful Libraries for .NET projects
6 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2021
Caching: IMemoryCache vs IDistributedCache
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 15 Apr 2021

Lazy Cache

Posts with mentions or reviews of Lazy Cache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.

Caching in .NET
2 projects | dev.to | 8 May 2023

Leverage Frameworks and Libraries: Numerous libraries and frameworks are available for .NET that can simplify caching implementation and management. Examples include CacheManager, EasyCaching, and LazyCache. Evaluate these options to see if they meet your requirements and can help streamline your caching strategy.
What your hidden nuget gems ?
32 projects | /r/dotnet | 10 Mar 2023
Request for code review for IMemoryCache Generic Helper method
1 project | /r/csharp | 27 Aug 2022
How to implement cache
2 projects | /r/csharp | 26 Jul 2022

We're using a wrapper library called LazyCache. It works fine.
Parallel.ForEachAsync Deep Dive
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 13 Dec 2021

I wasn't aware of this LazyCache nuget, it would requires a bit of a code rewrite for me to use directly, but it seems nice. The only issue is that I see their AsyncLazy implementation does not do what the stackoverflow post mention.
Capper - Strongly typed read-through caching extensions for .NET's IDistributedCache
3 projects | /r/csharp | 9 Aug 2021
Libraries for Memory Caching which wrap objects like Moq
3 projects | /r/dotnet | 30 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CacheManager and Lazy Cache you can also consider the following projects:

EasyCaching - :boom: EasyCaching is an open source caching library that contains basic usages and some advanced usages of caching which can help us to handle caching more easier!

Akavache - An asynchronous, persistent key-value store created for writing desktop and mobile applications, based on SQLite3. Akavache is great for both storing important data as well as cached local data that expires.

SqliteCache for ASP.NET Core - An ASP.NET Core IDistributedCache provider backed by SQLite

CacheCow - An implementation of HTTP Caching in .NET Core and 4.5.2+ for both the client and the server

FusionCache - FusionCache is an easy to use, fast and robust cache with advanced resiliency features and an optional distributed 2nd level.

NCache - NCache: Highly Scalable In-Memory Distributed Cache for .NET

Electron.NET - :electron: Build cross platform desktop apps with ASP.NET Core (Razor Pages, MVC, Blazor).

CacheAdapter

Polly - Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner. From version 6.0.1, Polly targets .NET Standard 1.1 and 2.0+.