cachex VS lru_cache

Compare cachex vs lru_cache and see what are their differences.

cachex

A powerful caching library for Elixir with support for transactions, fallbacks and expirations (by whitfin)

lru_cache

ETS-based fix-sized LRU cache for elixir (by arago)
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cachex lru_cache
4 -
1,468 36
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8.1 0.0
24 days ago over 2 years ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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cachex

Posts with mentions or reviews of cachex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-19.

lru_cache

Posts with mentions or reviews of lru_cache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning lru_cache yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cachex and lru_cache you can also consider the following projects:

Nebulex - In-memory and distributed caching toolkit for Elixir.

con_cache - ets based key/value cache with row level isolated writes and ttl support

stash - A small and user-friendly ETS wrapper for caching in Elixir

elixir_locker

Mem - KV cache with TTL, Replacement and Persistence support

locker - Atomic distributed "check and set" for short-lived keys

Haphazard - A configurable plug for caching