go-cache VS go-memdb

Compare go-cache vs go-memdb and see what are their differences.

go-cache

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

go-memdb

Golang in-memory database built on immutable radix trees (by hashicorp)
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go-cache go-memdb
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7,762 3,045
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0.0 3.6
4 months ago about 1 month ago
Go Go
MIT License Mozilla Public License 2.0
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go-cache

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-cache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-18.
  • My first package in go. An in-memory cache package useful when creating multiple instances of the cache
    2 projects | /r/golang | 18 Aug 2023
    Why I am creating this package? There is an already existing memory cache package which creates (One Janitor for One Cache) So I am running into issues where many go routines are running in our use cases causing the application to crash due to some memory leakage in the library itself or maybe multiple timers running at same time casuing the issue. Also this is a very popular github library but just doesn't fits when I am creating many cache instances. So thought about creating one package by myself.
  • VCache vs Go-Cache
    4 projects | /r/golang | 4 Feb 2023
    I wrote a new library called VCache (https://github.com/microup/vcache). VCahce differs from go-cache (https://github.com/patrickmn/go-cache) by using a key of type "any" instead of a key of type "string". I compared the performance of both libraries on the main operations: Add, Get, and Delete.
  • Better Cache - A Lightning Fast Caching System with Full Text Search
    2 projects | /r/golang | 25 Aug 2022
    https://github.com/patrickmn/go-cache is a well known one. My cache module is for it's fast full text search thus I recommend only using mine if u are using a pre-set cache.
  • go-cache VS ccache - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 2 Apr 2022
  • Implement an in-memory cache in Golang
    2 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2022
    github.com - patrickmn/go-cache
  • Log4j RCE Found
    32 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2021
    > when they went a year without a release.

    Cause these libraries depend on other libraries that are probably extremely out of date at that point and have their own security vulnerabilities.

    An example of a project that hasn't been dismissed as "abandoned", is https://github.com/patrickmn/go-cache because it explicitly doesnt have dependencies.

    So yeah, if you have a semi-complex library, a year without a release is abandoned.

  • In-memory caching solutions
    4 projects | /r/golang | 1 Feb 2021
    Though pretty simple but have a look at https://github.com/patrickmn/go-cache

go-memdb

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-memdb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-cache and go-memdb you can also consider the following projects:

BigCache - Efficient cache for gigabytes of data written in Go.

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

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

badger - Fast key-value DB in Go.

dbbench - 🏋️ dbbench is a simple database benchmarking tool which supports several databases and own scripts

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

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

bolt

goose

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

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