What are the best Caching Tools?

Varnish, Amazon ElastiCache, Ehcache, Apache Traffic Server, and Squid are the most popular tools in the category “Caching”. “High-performance” is the primary reason developers pick Varnish over its competitors, while “Redis” is the reason why Amazon ElastiCache was chosen.

1st

Varnish

12.6k stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Varnish

• •High-performance
• •Very Fast
• •Very Stable

2nd

Amazon ElastiCache

1.31k stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Amazon ElastiCache

• •Redis
• •High-performance
• •Backed by amazon

3rd

Ehcache

616 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Ehcache

• •Easy setup
• •Simpler to run in testing environment
• •Container doesn't have to be running for local tests

4th

Apache Traffic Server

452 stacks

5th

Squid

101 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Squid

• •Easy to config
• •Very Fast
• •Cluster

6th

MemCachier

96 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose MemCachier

• •Easy add-on to heroku
• •Simple
• •High reliability

7th

Section

52 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Section

• •Makes the hard parts of varnish easy
• •Realtime stats
• •Git support

8th

GraphQL Cache

23 stacks

9th

McRouter

20 stacks

10th

twemproxy

14 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose twemproxy

• •Scalable for Caches