node-cache VS fastcache

Compare node-cache vs fastcache and see what are their differences.

node-cache

a node internal (in-memory) caching module (by node-cache)

fastcache

Fast thread-safe inmemory cache for big number of entries in Go. Minimizes GC overhead (by VictoriaMetrics)
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5 months ago 5 months ago
CoffeeScript Go
MIT License MIT License
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node-cache

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-cache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-27.
  • 10 Powerful Node.js Libraries Every Developer Should Know About
    10 projects | dev.to | 27 Apr 2023
    4. node-cache
  • ELI5: Is there a design pattern of how to delete a guest user/session after a while?
    1 project | /r/webdev | 20 Jun 2022
    One such implementation if you are using nodejs is `node-cache` https://github.com/node-cache/node-cache/blob/master/README.md. However you can probably find an implementation for most any language you are using.
  • Caching In Node.js Applications
    6 projects | dev.to | 18 Jan 2022
    In-process caching may be implemented in a Node.js application through libraries, such as node-cache, memory-cache, api-cache, and others. There is a wide variety of distributed caching solutions, but the most popular ones are Redis and Memcached. They are both in-memory key-value stores and optimal for read-heavy workloads or compute-intensive workloads due to their use of memory rather than the slower on-disk storage mechanisms found in traditional database systems.
  • I am building a Serverless version of Redis - written in Rust
    7 projects | /r/rust | 2 May 2021
    If you're looking for a caching library, there are several of them in every language I've ever used. For example, in Node node-cache is very popular (https://github.com/node-cache/node-cache). Every language I've ever worked in has a few of these. They tend to have a pretty similar basic feature set, and they all have at least the same functions that you defined in your project.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing node-cache and fastcache you can also consider the following projects:

node-redis - A high-performance Node.js Redis client. [Moved to: https://github.com/redis/node-redis]

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

Redis - Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

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

Memcached - memcached development tree

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

apicache - Simple API-caching middleware for Express/Node.

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

node-cache - A simple in-memory cache for nodejs

dgraph - The high-performance database for modern applications

RedisLess - RedisLess is a fast, lightweight, embedded and scalable in-memory Key/Value store library compatible with the Redis API.

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