fastcache vs BigCache

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fastcache		BigCache
	Project
3	Mentions	1
1,980	Stars	7,184
1.5%	Growth	1.4%
3.4	Activity	6.3
5 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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.

fastcache

Posts with mentions or reviews of fastcache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2023

https://github.com/fmstephe/P2P-Distributed-Sat-Solver
Here is an example of a bug-fix I made to an existing open source project https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fastcache/pull/17
fastcache VS directcache - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 16 Jun 2022
Implementing robust in-memory cache with Go
5 projects | dev.to | 11 May 2022

If serialization is not a problem fastcache is the best for its outstanding memory usage.

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 .

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fastcache and BigCache 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.

groupcache - groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.

buntdb - BuntDB is an embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with custom indexing and geospatial support

ristretto - A high performance memory-bound Go cache

dgraph - The high-performance database for modern applications

badger - Fast key-value DB in Go.

bolt

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

tidb - TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Try AI-powered Chat2Query free at : https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial

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