BigCache VS groupcache

Compare BigCache vs groupcache and see what are their differences.

groupcache

groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases. (by golang)
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BigCache groupcache
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7,184 12,717
1.4% 0.7%
6.3 0.0
about 2 months ago 5 months ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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BigCache

Posts with mentions or reviews of BigCache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-29.
  • Recommendation for Key/Value storage
    9 projects | /r/golang | 29 Dec 2021
    There are also different packages used as a wrapper on top of the Go map based on what your requirements are (storing a lot of data) https://github.com/allegro/bigcache or (need performance) https://github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto. For basic use-cases, the standard Go map should be enough. Just keep in mind whether you need concurrent access to your data structure, in which case you should guard your map with a mutex .

groupcache

Posts with mentions or reviews of groupcache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BigCache and groupcache you can also consider the following projects:

go-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.

ristretto - A high performance memory-bound Go cache

cache2go - Concurrency-safe Go caching library with expiration capabilities and access counters

badger - Fast key-value DB in Go.

rqlite - The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite.

GCache - An in-memory cache library for golang. It supports multiple eviction policies: LRU, LFU, ARC

Tile38 - Real-time Geospatial and Geofencing

fastcache - Fast thread-safe inmemory cache for big number of entries in Go. Minimizes GC overhead

ledisdb - A high performance NoSQL Database Server powered by Go

cockroach - CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.

go-memdb - Golang in-memory database built on immutable radix trees