NCache vs Lazy Cache

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NCache		Lazy Cache
	Project
1	Mentions	9
635	Stars	1,690
0.8%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C#	Language	C#
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

NCache

Posts with mentions or reviews of NCache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

NCache VS Metalama.Patterns - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 7 Dec 2023

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 NCache and Lazy Cache you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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!

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

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

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

SharpRepository - C# Generic Repository for use with Entity Framework, RavenDB and more with built-in caching options.

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+.