Heroku Redis vs MemCachier

Overview

MemCachier

Stacks96

Followers87

Votes39

Heroku Redis

Stacks105

Followers163

Votes5

Heroku Redis vs MemCachier: What are the differences?

What is Heroku Redis? Reliable and powerful Redis as a service. Heroku Redis is an in-memory key-value data store, run by Heroku, that is provisioned and managed as an add-on. Heroku Redis is accessible from any language with a Redis driver, including all languages and frameworks supported by Heroku.

What is MemCachier? The easiest, most advanced managed memcache for the cloud. MemCachier provides an easy and powerful managed caching solution for all your performance and scalability needs. It works with the ubiquitous memcache protocol so your favourite language and framework already supports it.

Heroku Redis belongs to "Redis Hosting" category of the tech stack, while MemCachier can be primarily classified under "Managed Memcache".

According to the StackShare community, MemCachier has a broader approval, being mentioned in 41 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Heroku Redis, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

MemCachier	Heroku Redis
MemCachier provides an easy and powerful managed caching solution for all your performance and scalability needs. It works with the ubiquitous memcache protocol so your favourite language and framework already supports it.	Heroku Redis is an in-memory key-value data store, run by Heroku, that is provisioned and managed as an add-on. Heroku Redis is accessible from any language with a Redis driver, including all languages and frameworks supported by Heroku.
High-availability; Seamless scalability; Multiple proxy servers; SSL authentication and encryption; High reliability and fault tolerance; 24/7 monitoring; Expert support	Easily Optimize;Vertically Scalable
Statistics
Stacks 96	Stacks 105
Followers 87	Followers 163
Votes 39	Votes 5
Pros & Cons
Pros 18 Easy add-on to heroku 14 Simple 3 High reliability 2 Has a New Relic plugin 1 Fault tolerance	Pros 5 More reliable than the other Redis add-ons Cons 1 More expensive than the other options
Integrations
AppHarbor dotCloud CloudBees cloudControl Heroku DigitalOcean Amazon EC2 AppFog	Heroku Redis

What are some alternatives to MemCachier, Heroku Redis?

Amazon ElastiCache

ElastiCache improves the performance of web applications by allowing you to retrieve information from fast, managed, in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. ElastiCache supports Memcached and Redis.

Memcached Cloud

Memcached Cloud is a fully-managed service for running your Memcached in a reliable and fail-safe manner. Your dataset is constantly replicated, so if a node fails, an auto-switchover mechanism guarantees data is served without interruption. Memcached Cloud provides various data persistence options as well as remote backups for disaster recovery purposes.

Redis To Go

Redis To Go was created to make the managing Redis instances easier, whether it is just one instance or serveral. Deploying a new instance of Redis is dead simple, whether for production or development.

Redis Cloud

Redis Cloud is a fully-managed service for running your Redis dataset. It overcomes Redis’ scalability limitation by supporting all Redis commands at any dataset size. Your dataset is constantly replicated, so if a node fails, an auto-switchover mechanism guarantees data is served without interruption.

RedisGreen

Redis drives the best sites on the web, from Twitter to Pinterest. RedisGreen makes it easy for anyone to use. Customers can spin up databases at the click of a button. RedisGreen's future is in very fast tools to make the most difficult aspects of modern web application development faster, cheaper, and less labor-intensive.<br>

Google Cloud Memorystore

Cloud Memorystore for Redis provides a fully managed in-memory data store service built on scalable, more secure, and highly available infrastructure managed by Google. Use Cloud Memorystore to build application caches that provides sub-millisecond data access. Cloud Memorystore is compatible with the Redis protocol, allowing easy migration with zero code changes.

Upstash

It provides Serverless Redis and Kafka as a service. With per request pricing, you pay only for what you use. You can use any Redis/Kafka clients. The built-in REST API enables use cases with serverless and edge functions.

Vercel KV

It provides durable, serverless Redis storage. It has been designed to be fast, scalable, and secure, and it's a great choice for storing and retrieving key-value and JSON data in your apps.