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Which engine?
This comparison card contrasts Which engine. Redis (ElastiCache) is described as structures, replication, snapshots, rich commands. Memcached (ElastiCache) is described as simple distributed object cache. The card pairs Redis (ElastiCache) with default choice on AWS today, and Memcached (ElastiCache) with simple cache-only cases.
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Which engine?
Redis (ElastiCache)
Structures, replication, snapshots, rich commands.
Memcached (ElastiCache)
Simple distributed object cache.
Key points
Sessions, counters, leaderboards.
Plain HTML fragment cache.
Example
SET session:1 ... / memcached set page:home
Use when
Default choice on AWS today.
Simple cache-only cases.