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9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems

Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.

Cachelot is a LRU cache Library. The library works within a fixed amount of memory. It doesn’t have a garbage collector.

yrmcds is a memory object caching system with master/slave replication. It’s written in C++ and published under an open source license.

Hazelcast is a distributed in-memory data store and computation platform a production-ready Raft implementation.

Apache Ignite is a horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant distributed in-memory computing platform.

Ehcache is a fast and simple, thread safe, standards based pure Java, in-process cache, which acts as a pluggable cache for Hibernate.

Java Caching System (JCS) is a distributed caching system written in Java. It speed up applications by caching data of various dynamic natures.

Redis is an advanced key-value store similar to memcache but the dataset is non-volatile. Often referred to as a data structure server.