--- title: Memcached Reviews meta_title: 'Memcached Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Memcached works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 18 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-07' parent_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # Memcached Reviews **Vendor:** Memcached **Category:** [Key Value Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/key-value-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Memcached Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system ## Memcached Reviews ### 1. Memcached Delivers Lightning-Fast, Low-Latency Caching at Scale **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2026 **What do you like best about Memcached?** I love how Memcached provides incredibly fast, low-latency data retrieval that significantly reduces my database load. Its simple key-value storage makes it extremely easy to implement and scale across our distributed infrastructure. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** I dislike that Memcached lacks built-in authentication and security features, which requires extra configuration at the network level. Additionally, because it is purely in-memory, I have to be careful about data loss since there is no native persistence if a node restarts. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** Memcached solves the problem of high database latency by allowing me to cache frequently accessed data directly in memory. This has significantly improved my application's response times and allowed me to scale more efficiently, as I no longer have to worry about my primary database becoming a bottleneck during traffic spikes. ### 2. Memcached review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wayde L. | Frontend Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Memcached?** My experience with the npm package was good, I love the ease of use and simplicity of it. I used it a while ago but the link to it is https://www.npmjs.com/package/memcached. Because it's so simple I could create a wrapper that could be used internally in our project. It definitely solved the issues we were facing with our web application rendering times. We achieved our desired results after implementation. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** With the simplicity can come many implementations which could possibly be the not recommended way. Not really a dislike but it would have been interesting for me to have more resources to understand exactly what's going on under the hood. Other than that there's not much more I can say. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** Watch tutorials before implementation. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed and reliability. We were having some serious speed issues before realizing that we needed some sort of caching layer between what we were doing. We started realizing we had caching issues when our site started to take longer than a couple of seconds to load. Once we looked further into the issue we realized that before rendering the web page we were doing a ton of database queries before rendering, which caused massive delays. Once we cached those query results in the rendering layer we ended up having massive performance boosts. We also did a layer of caching for HTTP requests that needed results from external services. We ended up getting the desired web performance after implementing Memcached with our own customer wrapper layer. I would recommend Memcached to anyone that needs to implement a simple caching system for their web applications. ### 3. Memcached: Maximum Speed! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan S. | Software Engineer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Memcached?** I like that Memcached allows for storage in RAM. It is Key-Value, but storing a JSON string is easy and quick. Especially so when using for it's intended purpose as a cache without worrying about persistence. It's written in C, very close to the metal. Additionally, development on it is very active - with the most recent stable release a few months ago. I especially love that it can distribute its hash table across multiple machines, thus improving speed and reducing overall workload. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** While the prefered cleanup strategy is LRU (Least Recently Used) I would love to have the ability to change to LFU (Least Frequently Used) for instance. I am not aware of this being configurable. Care should also be taken to make sure that it is secure (typically user error). One should configure the application correctly and to only accept connections from whitelisted applications. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** Make sure you tie up security in the config before going live. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it primarily purely as a cache, no persistence. It sped up our load times and user lookup for subsequent visits and page loads dramatically, in the order of 300% to 400% faster load times. ### 4. Good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** YongBao J. | Web developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Memcached?** It is fast than I've estimated, totally it solved my headache. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** Everything is ok. I'd like to use Memcached in the future. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** Good to use. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** fast access ### 5. I would like to Share this post **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Memcached?** Memcached is best now storage data in this memory. I would link to use this card. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** Nothing is dislike.Everything is well. it will be grate. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** I solved many problems using php/Mysql. it's has been more benefits. ### 6. Memcached works pretty well when you need easy-to-use key-value storage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Memcached?** Simplicity, integration is pretty fast, you can integrate in minutes. A good amount of libraries for different frameworks **What do you dislike about Memcached?** I actually don't like some protocol implementations, like pylibmc **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are storing ### 7. Memcached : small, fast, and "just works" **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Memcached?** Memcache is supported by a huge set of development tools, has great library support **What do you dislike about Memcached?** Using the TEXT protocol vs. the BINARY protocol can be required to get some clients to work. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** make sure to use the latest version of memcached, and be forewarned that there is no security guardrails. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use memcached as a sideline cache, to prevent having to go to the database for data that we've recently retrieved. Due to the automatic cache expiration timing feature, we can rest assured that when we fetch something from memcached, it will be "fresh", or non-existent. ### 8. Super fast and stable, but lacks of any advance methods. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego J. | Software Architect, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Memcached?** It's as fast and as stable as it can be. It never crashed. Its performance is unbeatable because of its simplicity, it does what it has to do, and it does it very well. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** Lack of features. It used to be the best option, but now there are more alternatives (eg, Redis) that are as fast as Memcached. The key and value size limits might be a problem for some. The limit of 1 index is also a problem. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** Unless you need an extreme performance boost, try Redis first. It has fewer limitations and it also performs pretty good. Use Memcached only if you need only a key-value volatile cache. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web site performance. I've used to cache data, reports, authentication tokens, etc. It freed a lot of work from the database and the network. ### 9. Great solution for session and object cache **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mathias F. | Senior Software Engineer, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Memcached?** It's extremely easy to install and start using memcached in your server and also in your local development environment. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** Not as useful and extensible as Redis. I would not recommend it over it. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** Also consider Redis and other solutions. Memcached is pretty easy to configure and use, but every tool has its specific pros and cons. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use memcached for web session management and for key-value storage as well. ### 10. self adjusting dynamic weights for nodes with load balancing using memcached and custom scripts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2016 **What do you like best about Memcached?** very fast database for storing keys and other information into memory that would normally be heavy on other databases / applications to request the data. ability to cluster the memcache servers in a distributed pool for high availability and reliability. integrates with many languages using modules/api (such as c, php, perl, python, etc) allowing greater flexibility for usage. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** it's meant for specific use cases really. assuming that the server restarts, any of the cached data will be gone (it wasn't meant to save it long term). there's some other products that are supposed to be better as well, although i haven't had a need to try/use any of them yet for the purpose of the applications being used with memcached. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** tuning appropriately for your resources available is necessary to get the best performance. it works great for API's, scripts, web applications, etc. it's almost hard to not find a good use for this program, although other one's such as redis may also be useful and one would need to evaluate which one may be the better solution. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** misc_check custom script used with keepalived for the purpose of self adjusting dynamic weights of services (primarily http/s) being load balanced based on the the node system load being checked. it's extremely fast and reliable for the custom check being used and can be integrated for many types of services checked. the daemon itself doesn't really require a large amount of memory, however that would be dependent more so on such data being stored and accessed. ### 11. Simple in-memory storage **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Memcached?** Ease of use, reliability. Very robust, fast information retrieval, simple integration with any system. Reliable service that has been available for many years so can be relied on. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** Lack of persistence without add-ons can cause problems, need to ensure you aren't saving any data you can't rebuild. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** Keep it simple, and don't store anything you can't rebuild. Construct scripts to warm the cache on reboots if your caching is vital to app performance. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster page and api loads by utilizing it as a cache layer. ### 12. Memcached for oh so many things **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2016 **What do you like best about Memcached?** It's blazing fast. As you would expect for something that is being kept in memory but needing to temporarily store something to be accessed one ore more times in the near future by multiple systems it is really hard to beat. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** There really isn't much of anything to dislike about Memcached. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** If you have an app that is consuming data from a database, you can more than likely utilize Memcached on some level. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** We store user data and report data in Memcached so our application limits the amount of DB queries we need to perform (redundant reports, for example). ### 13. memcached is amazing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh S. | Senior Software Engineer, Marketing and Advertising, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2016 **What do you like best about Memcached?** It's fast. 1000 times faster than going to the DB **What do you dislike about Memcached?** It can only hold 1MB. It can make coding more complicated **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** The speedup is generally worth the increased problems with having things stored and not being cleared out when they are updated. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** speed by not going to the DB for info. speed ### 14. In-memory application accelleration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric M. | Principal Software Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2015 **What do you like best about Memcached?** Memcached is remarkably easy to install and, at least for PHP, supports two fantastic programmatic interfaces for data access and manipulation. The pooling capability allows for multiple servers to share the cache load and prevent the system from ever becoming a bottleneck. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** All data lives in memory, which is great for performance, but poor in case the server needs to go down for a reboot. If you rely too heavily on the in-memory cache, your data can mysteriously disappear at times and a fresh boot of the application can feel sluggish compared to normal operation. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a highly-performance, in-memory cache to alleviate data lookup bottlenecks due to the high latency of MySQL and similar data servers. Using Memcached to offload the lookup burden from the database has been huge to building performant web applications and has increased our ability to serve multiple concurrent visitiors. ### 15. easy to implement caching. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kamalakannan s. | Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Memcached?** it's easy to implement the caching by using this. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** there is no user interface to monitor the system. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** if you want implement some caching to your project with the tight deadline, then this is one for you. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** we want to cache lots of values in our production environment. It is easy to implement and maintain. ### 16. Top notch caching system. Your go to cache, simple and done right. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** João F. | Head Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Memcached?** Simple operations, great documentation and great performance. The fact that there are numerous binding to all languages is a bonus. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** Watch out for very large object. Memcached is a KV caching system, don't try to put in their too much stuff. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** Very good KV store, with very good performance, ease of use and documentation. Keep in mind large object. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** Research on KV stores performance. ### 17. Memcached Cut Down our DB calls by 50% **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parker C. | Software Engineer, Real Estate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2015 **What do you like best about Memcached?** Memcached has the most simplistic setup and usage that I have seen (so far) in a caching server. Despite the fact that I was trying to implement it into a monolithic monster, Memcached exceeded all expectations and we hit our deadline for completion a week early. What I liked most about Memcached is that implementing it is almost as simple as adding simple if-then statement throughout you application. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** While the simplicity of Memecached is a huge advantage, I am left wanting more from it yet. Retrieval of cached fragments at it's most basic form is exactly what Memecached offers, but no more. A more advanced system for grouping and management of previously cached data would benefit the application immensely. **Recommendations to others considering Memcached:** Does your company currently use a caching strategy for their web application? If not, use Memcached. If for some reason you implement it, you have the ability to roll-back and revert to your previous system because Memcached is so ease to use. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed. Before using Memecached, my server was performing constant database lookups and that took a huge toll on performance. ### 18. Memcached is my cache store of choice **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emile S. | Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Memcached?** Memcached is fast and can store large volumes of data without problems. **What do you dislike about Memcached?** Defaults need to be changed to accept bigger payloads. Had cache misses when a 10mb marshalled object was being rejected. **What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed up applications with caching. - [View Memcached pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/memcached/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-25+00%3A52%3A15+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=01f232c2-f056-4f0f-9cfb-6e1819195d9b&secure%5Btoken%5D=ce61d4400e76ca0d5d9b40f3af985eab6219db3763f2077f826bd174f50e956b&format=llm_user) ## Memcached Features **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Encryption **Support** - Operating Systems **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Memcached Alternatives - [Redis Software](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-software/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (130 reviews) - [Azure Redis Cache](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-redis-cache/reviews) - 3.7/5.0 (19 reviews) - [Aerospike](https://www.g2.com/products/aerospike/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (80 reviews)