go-cache VS prometheus

Compare go-cache vs prometheus 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)
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go-cache prometheus
8 381
7,805 52,642
- 1.4%
0.0 9.9
5 months ago 6 days ago
Go Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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.

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    Cause these libraries depend on other libraries that are probably extremely out of date at that point and have their own security vulnerabilities.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

  • Cache locally using text file
    1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 28 Jul 2021
    implementing runtime cache using map seems doable, i may just learn from github.com/patrickmn/go-cache but i dont understand what does it mean cache locally using text file. does it mean I have to:
  • 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

prometheus

Posts with mentions or reviews of prometheus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-12.
  • Fivefold Slower Compared to Go? Optimizing Rust's Protobuf Decoding Performance
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2024
    WriteRequest::timeseries is a vector (https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/prompb/re...) and
  • Tools for frontend monitoring with Prometheus
    6 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    Developers widely use Prometheus as a system for operational monitoring and alerting for their projects. Here is a list of tools for monitoring frontend services with Prometheus.
  • The power of the CLI with Golang and Cobra CLI
    9 projects | dev.to | 6 Apr 2024
    Just to give an example of the power of Go for CLI builds, you may have already used or at least heard of Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform, but what do they all have in common? They all have a large part of their usability via CLI and are developed in Go 🐿.
  • On Implementation of Distributed Protocols
    23 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2024
    Distributed system administrators need mechanisms and tools for monitoring individual nodes in order to analyze the system and promptly detect anomalies. Developers also need effective mechanisms for analyzing, diagnosing issues, and identifying bugs in protocol implementations. Logging, tracing, and collecting metrics are common observability techniques to allow monitoring and obtaining diagnostic information from the system; most of the explored code bases use these techniques. OpenTelemetry and Prometheus are popular open-source monitoring solutions, which are used in many of the explored code bases.
  • Golang: out-of-box backpressure handling with gRPC, proven by a Grafana dashboard
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024
    Setting up monitoring for a system, especially one involving GRPC communication, provides crucial visibility into its operations. In this guide, we walked through the steps to instrument both a GRPC server and client with Prometheus metrics, exposed those metrics via an HTTP endpoint, and visualized them using Grafana. The Docker-Compose setup simplified the deployment of both Prometheus and Grafana, ensuring a streamlined process.
  • Monitoring, Observability, and Telemetry Explained
    3 projects | dev.to | 2 Apr 2024
    Alerting and Notification: Select a tool with flexible alerting mechanisms to proactively detect anomalies or deviations from defined thresholds. Consider asking questions like "Does this tool offer customizable alerting options and support notification channels that suit our team's communication preferences?" A tool like Prometheus provides robust alerting capabilities.
  • Observability at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris
    7 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2024
    Prometheus
  • Top 5 Docker Container Monitoring Tools in 2024
    1 project | dev.to | 24 Mar 2024
    Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit. It is designed to monitor highly dynamic containerized systems, making it an excellent choice for monitoring Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters.
  • Install and Setup Grafana & Prometheus on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04/EC2
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Mar 2024
    wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.46.0/prometheus-2.46.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
  • 4 facets of API monitoring you should implement
    3 projects | dev.to | 2 Mar 2024
    Prometheus: Open-source monitoring system. Often used together with Grafana.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

metrics-server - Scalable and efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.

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

skywalking - APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

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

Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin

badger - Fast key-value DB in Go.

Telegraf - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.

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

JavaMelody - JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications

goose

Glowroot - Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM