🆚 Memcached vs. Redis

📈 Redis is as popular as Memcached.
🌍 Redis is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
🌎 Memcached is more popular in the United States, Japan, and New Zealand.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Memcached

Redis

Type

Database

About

Memcached is an open-source event-based key-value store that keeps data in memory to deliver very low latency access and high throughput.

It can handle over 200,000 operations per second on fast hardware, uses multi-threading to leverage multiple CPU cores, and applies Least Recently Used cache eviction policy when it runs out of memory.

Redis is a popular high-performance in-memory key-value database that persists on disk.

It supports rich data structures beyond simple strings, offers master-replica replication, clustering across up to thousands of nodes via hash-slot sharding, and automatic failover.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

memcached.org #897,673

redis.io #23,562

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Free version ✔️ Open source

Cloud Essentials $5+/month

Cloud Pro $0.881/hour

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Redis database is as popular as Memcached.

Total websites

Market share

Databases

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Redis is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, while Memcached is more popular in the United States, Japan, and New Zealand.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

India

Germany

France

Japan

Netherlands

Italy

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in New Zealand in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Mexico in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Databases category.

🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in India in the Databases category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Redis is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Memcached is more commonly used on restaurants, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and recreation and hobbies sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Blogs/Wiki

Sports

Entertainment

Health

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#15

#19

#22

#40