Nuster

What it does

Cache controls

The project lists cache management, purging, stats, TTL settings, and disk persistence.checked 11 Oct 2026

Cache management

Documented cache features include purging, statistics, TTL settings, and disk persistence.checked 11 Oct 2026

Configuration limit

The manager, stats, and purge API is disabled by default, and the project advises restricting access when enabling it.checked 11 Oct 2026

Deployment

The README gives Linux build instructions and a Docker image and run example for self-hosted deployment.checked 11 Oct 2026

Downloads and maintenance

The download page lists version 5.2.5.22 as stable, released 2020-12-19, and marks several older versions unmaintained or critical-fixes-only.checked 11 Oct 2026

HAProxy compatibility

The README says Nuster is 100% compatible with HAProxy and inherits its features.checked 11 Oct 2026

HTTP caching

It can cache dynamic and static HTTP responses with rules based on request or response content, headers, cookies, server state, SSL details, and connection metrics.checked 11 Oct 2026

Integration compatibility

Nuster says its RESTful cache supports any data type and any programming language that supports HTTP.checked 11 Oct 2026

Integrations

The README describes using Nuster between an application and a database like Memcached or Redis, and says any programming language with HTTP support can use it.checked 11 Oct 2026

Intended use

The project describes using its NoSQL cache between an application and database or between end users and an application.checked 11 Oct 2026

License

The repository license file states that files in the package are covered by GPL unless expressly stated otherwise, with an exception allowing OpenSSL use.checked 11 Oct 2026

Load balancing

It supports HTTP and TCP load balancing, HTTPS on frontend and backend, HTTP compression, HTTP/2, rewriting, monitoring, stickiness, ACLs, and content switching.checked 11 Oct 2026

Performance claim

The README reports benchmark results of nearly three times nginx's speed on one core and nearly twice nginx's speed and three times Varnish's speed across all cores.checked 11 Oct 2026

Product

Nuster is a high-performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy.checked 11 Oct 2026

Release status

The download page lists version 5.2.5.22, released 2020-12-19, as the stable version; its 5.3.0.23 release is labeled mainline.checked 11 Oct 2026

RESTful key-value cache

Nuster supports HTTP POST, GET, and DELETE operations to set, retrieve, and delete key-value objects.checked 11 Oct 2026

RESTful NoSQL

Its NoSQL cache accepts HTTP POST, GET, and DELETE requests to set, retrieve, and delete key-value objects, and supports arbitrary data.checked 11 Oct 2026

Security controls

The README lists HTTPS support and ACLs; it cautions users to restrict access when enabling the manager, stats, and purge API.checked 11 Oct 2026

What it does

Nuster is an HTTP proxy cache and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy.checked 11 Oct 2026