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Memcached Cloud vs MemCachier: What are the differences?
Developers describe Memcached Cloud as "A fully-managed service for hosting and running your memcached in a reliable and fail-safe manner". 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. On the other hand, MemCachier is detailed as "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.
Memcached Cloud and MemCachier can be primarily classified as "Managed Memcache" tools.
Some of the features offered by Memcached Cloud are:
- true high-availability
- fast storage engine
- backups and imports
On the other hand, MemCachier provides the following key features:
- High-availability
- Seamless scalability
- Multiple proxy servers
"Heroku add-on" is the primary reason why developers consider Memcached Cloud over the competitors, whereas "Easy add-on to heroku" was stated as the key factor in picking MemCachier.
According to the StackShare community, MemCachier has a broader approval, being mentioned in 41 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Memcached Cloud, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Memcached Cloud
- High-availability6
- Heroku add-on6
- Fast3
- Email alerts2
- Fail-safe2
- 24/7 monitoring & support1
- Backups and import1
- Offered by Redis Labs1
- Auto-switchover1
- Seamless scalability1
Pros of MemCachier
- Easy add-on to heroku18
- Simple14
- High reliability3
- Has a New Relic plugin2
- Fault tolerance1
- Free tier is enough for small apps1