Top 6 C Caching Projects

haproxy

16 4,445 9.9 C

HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)

Project mention: HAProxy is not affected by the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack (CVE-2023-44487) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-11

I wanted to try it out just now but hit a roadblock immediately - it cannot automatically obtain and maintain TLS certificates. You have to use an external client (e.g. acme.sh), set up a cron to check/renew them, and poke HAProxy to reload them if necessary. I'm way past doing this in 2023.
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-and-let-s-encrypt
https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/1864

varnish-cache

5 3,497 9.7 C

Varnish Cache source code repository
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
cachegrand

24 963 8.0 C

cachegrand - a modern data ingestion, processing and serving platform built for today's hardware
pylibmc

2 477 4.6 C

A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface from TangentOrg.
rapiddisk

4 282 4.2 C

An Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching kernel modules. Dynamically allocate RAM as block devices. Use them as stand alone drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those volumes locally or export them across an NVMe Target network. Manage it all from a web API.
Alternative PHP Cache (APC)

0 21 0.0 C

Alternative PHP Cache

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).