gomemcache VS redis

Compare gomemcache vs redis and see what are their differences.

redis

Type-safe Redis client for Golang [Moved to: https://github.com/redis/go-redis] (by go-redis)
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gomemcache redis
4 1
1,695 16,718
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5.0 9.6
20 days ago about 1 year ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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gomemcache

Posts with mentions or reviews of gomemcache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-27.
  • Memcached protocol
    1 project | /r/golang | 8 Jul 2022
  • Caching in Golang using Memcached
    2 projects | dev.to | 27 Aug 2021
    The library I will be using in this article as a Memcached client is gomemcache as it is quite simple to configure and use.
  • Go Package for better integration tests: github.com/ory/dockertest
    4 projects | dev.to | 23 Apr 2021
    In cases where there's no de-facto package used for mocking calls, we could define our own interface type that happens to be defining the concrete calls we use in your code, for example if we are planning to mock memcached calls and github.com/bradfitz/gomemcache it's being used, then something like the following could work:
  • Building Microservices in Go: Caching using memcached
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Mar 2021
    Understanding the nuances behind when and how to use caching is important when building microservices, in this post I will discuss general concepts about caching, some concrete details about memcached and I will cover the de-facto package for using memcached in Go: github.com/bradfitz/gomemcache.

redis

Posts with mentions or reviews of redis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gomemcache and redis you can also consider the following projects:

Redis - Redis Go client

rueidis - A fast Golang Redis client that supports Client Side Caching, Auto Pipelining, Generics OM, RedisJSON, RedisBloom, RediSearch, etc.

aerospike-client-go - Aerospike Client Go

rueidis - A fast Golang Redis client that supports Client Side Caching, Auto Pipelining, Generics OM, RedisJSON, RedisBloom, RediSearch, etc. [Moved to: https://github.com/redis/rueidis]

Kivik - Common interface to CouchDB or CouchDB-like databases for Go and GopherJS

Hiredis - Minimalistic C client for Redis >= 1.2

godis - redis client implement by golang, inspired by jedis.

badger - Fast key-value DB in Go.

dynago - A DynamoDB client for Go

redigo - Go client for Redis

mongo-go-driver - The Official Golang driver for MongoDB

Go-CQRS-Kafka-gRPC-Microservices - Go gRPC Kafka CQRS microservices with tracing