nuster is a high-performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy.
It’s 100% compatible with HAProxy and takes full advantage of the ACL functionality of HAProxy to provide fine-grained caching policy based on the content of request, response or server status.
Key Features
- All features from HAProxy(HTTPS, HTTP/2, ACL, etc).
- Extremely fast.
- Powerful dynamic cache ability:
- Based on HTTP method, URI, path, query, header, cookies, etc.
- Based on HTTP request or response contents, etc.
- Based on environment variables, server state, etc.
- Based on SSL version, SNI, etc.
- Based on connection rate, number, byte, etc.
- Cache management.
- Cache purging.
- Cache stats.
- Cache TTL.
- Disk persistence.
nuster can also be used as a RESTful NoSQL cache server, using HTTP POST/GET/DELETE to set/get/delete Key/Value object.
It can be used as an internal NoSQL cache sits between your application and database like Memcached or Redis as well as a user-facing NoSQL cache that sits between end-user and your application. It supports headers, cookies, so you can store per-user data to the same endpoint.
Features include:
- All features from HAProxy (HTTPS, HTTP/2, ACL, etc).
- Conditional cache.
- Internal KV cache.
- User facing RESTful cache.
- Support any kind of data.
- Support all programming languages as long as HTTP is supported.
- Disk persistence.
nuster can be used as an HTTP/TCP load balancer just like HAProxy.
Features include:
- All features of HAProxy are inherited, 100% compatible with HAProxy.
- Load balancing.
- HTTPS supports on both frontend and backend.
- HTTP compression.
- HTTP rewriting and redirection.
- HTTP fixing.
- HTTP2.
- Monitoring.
- Stickiness.
- ACLs and conditions.
- Content switching.
Website: github.com/jiangwenyuan/nuster
Support:
Developer: Jiang Wenyuan
License: GNU General Public License
nuster is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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