--- 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: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # Memcached Reviews & Product Details Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system * * * Seller [Memcached](https://www.g2.com/sellers/memcached) Discussions [Memcached Community](https://www.g2.com/products/memcached/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Redis Software](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Redis Software") Redis Software 4.5/5(136) ](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-software/reviews) [ ![Azure Redis Cache](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Redis Cache") Azure Redis Cache 3.7/5(22) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-redis-cache/reviews) [ ![Aerospike](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aerospike") Aerospike 4.4/5(83) ](https://www.g2.com/products/aerospike/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/memcached/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 18 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Consulting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consulting") UC Verified User in Consulting Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/2/2026 "Memcached Delivers Lightning-Fast, Low-Latency Caching at Scale" 4/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/5/2026 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Wayde L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Wayde L.") WL Wayde L. Frontend Web Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/20/2021 "Memcached review" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Memcached: Watch tutorials before implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Juan S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Juan S.") JS Juan S. Software Engineer Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/7/2020 "Memcached: Maximum Speed!" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Memcached: Make sure you tie up security in the config before going live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![YongBao J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "YongBao J.") YJ YongBao J. Web developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/18/2021 "Good experience" 5/5 What do you like best about Memcached? It is fast than I've estimated, totally it solved my headache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Memcached? Everything is ok. I'd like to use Memcached in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Memcached: Good to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you? fast access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/25/2021 "I would like to Share this post" 5/5 What do you like best about Memcached? Memcached is best now storage data in this memory. I would link to use this card. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Memcached? Nothing is dislike.Everything is well. it will be grate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you? I solved many problems using php/Mysql. it's has been more benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/19/2021 "Memcached works pretty well when you need easy-to-use key-value storage" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Memcached? I actually don't like some protocol implementations, like pylibmc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Memcached solving and how is that benefiting you? We are storing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/16/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Memcached : small, fast, and "just works"" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Memcached? Memcache is supported by a huge set of development tools, has great library support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Memcached? Using the TEXT protocol vs. the BINARY protocol can be required to get some clients to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Memcached: make sure to use the latest version of memcached, and be forewarned that there is no security guardrails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/24/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Diego J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Diego J.") DJ Diego J. Software Architect Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/16/2016 "Super fast and stable, but lacks of any advance methods." 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mathias F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mathias F.") MF Mathias F. Senior Software Engineer Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/20/2016 "Great solution for session and object cache" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Memcached? Not as useful and extensible as Redis. I would not recommend it over it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/11/2016 "self adjusting dynamic weights for nodes with load balancing using memcached and custom scripts" 5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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