API Caching: Techniques for Better Performance

Key-Value Database Databases NoSQL Databases

Varnish Landing Page
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Varnish

High-performance HTTP accelerator
Pricing:
- Open Source
Varnish Cache — A web application accelerator that serves as an intermediary between web clients and servers. It provides logging, request inspection, authentication and authorization, and throttling. Varnish can also enhance security as a web application firewall, hotlinking protector, and DDoS attack defense tool.

#Proxy Server #Key-Value Database #Proxy 18 social mentions
Apache Traffic Server Landing Page
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Apache Traffic Server

Fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/S 2 and 1.1 compliant caching proxy server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Apache Traffic Server — A free, fast, and scalable HTTP caching system that improves network efficiency. It supports forward and reverse proxy caching and is configurable to run simultaneously on either or both options. It also provides authentication and basic authorization through plugins.

#Proxy Server #Proxy #DevOps Tools 6 social mentions
Redis Landing Page
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Redis

Redis is an open source in-memory data structure project implementing a distributed, in-memory key-value database with optional durability.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Redis — Remote Dictionary Server is a free, flexible, and high-performance distributed in-memory system that works with most programming languages. It supports numerous data structures such as hashes, strings, lists, sets, streams, sorted sets, bitmaps, and more. Redis applies to many problems, including database caching, public messaging systems, API responses, and queues. This makes it applicable across gaming, social network applications, real-time data analytics, RSS feeds, user recommendations, etc.

#Key-Value Database #NoSQL Databases #Databases 216 social mentions
memcached Landing Page
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memcached

High-performance, distributed memory object caching system
Pricing:
- Open Source
Memcached — Free and well-known for its simplicity, Memcached is a distributed and powerful memory object caching system. It uses key-value pairs to store small data chunks from database calls, API calls, and page rendering. It is available on Windows. Strings are the only supported data type. Its client-server architecture distributes the cache logic, with half of the logic implemented on the server and the other on the client side.

#Key-Value Database #Databases #NoSQL Databases 36 social mentions
Apache Ignite Landing Page
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Apache Ignite

high-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory platform for computing and transacting on...
Pricing:
- Open Source
Apache Ignite — Free and open-source, Apache Ignite is a horizontally scalable key-value cache store system with a robust multi-model database that powers APIs to compute distributed data. Ignite provides a security system that can authenticate users' credentials on the server. It can also be used for system workload acceleration, real-time data processing, analytics, and as a graph-centric programming model.

#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Key-Value Database 3 social mentions