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Add to SafariWhen comparing IronCache vs Memcached Cloud, the Slant community recommends IronCache for most people. In the question“What are the best caching addons for Heroku?” IronCache is ranked 1st while Memcached Cloud is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose IronCache is:
IronCache has been built with scalability and availability in mind. It's highly concurrent and very easy to scale.
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Pros
Pro High scalability
IronCache has been built with scalability and availability in mind. It's highly concurrent and very easy to scale.
Pro Supports memcached text protocol
IronCache has a REST API with which supports various memcached clients for different languages.
Pro Periodical backups
You can backup your data on S3 periodically or whenever you chose to do so.
Pro True availability
Each node has a replica which is used in those cases where the main node fails. If this happens, your data is served from the replica node automatically.
Cons
Con Only supports basic Redis functions
IronCache is a simple key-value store. As such, it does not support most of the functionalities that Redis has.
Con No support for Go
Memcached cloud has no native support for golang and projects developed in that language.
