17.9
Amazon ElastiCache is a managed caching service compatible with Valkey, Memcached, and Redis OSS.
Free planWebAPILinux
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27.2
Apache Traffic Server is an open-source caching proxy server for HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.
Free planOpen sourceAPILinuxmacOS
36.9
Ehcache is a free, open-source Java cache for application data, database results, and web pages.
Free planOpen sourceAPISelf-hosted
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Aiven for Valkey
Aiven for Valkey is a managed in-memory key/value datastore for real-time applications.
Free planWebAPILinux6.8From $15 a month - 5
Google Cloud Memorystore
Google Cloud Memorystore is a fully managed in-memory service for Valkey, Redis Cluster, Redis, and Memcached, with protocol compatibility for those engines.
WebAPI6.4From $0.05 a month - 6
cache2k
cache2k is an in-memory object caching library for Java applications.
Free planAndroidAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 7
Garnet
Garnet is a free remote cache-store from Microsoft Research for self-hosted use.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.2Free plan - 8
Squid
Squid is a free, self-hosted caching proxy for web traffic.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.2Free plan - 9
Caffeine
Caffeine is a free, open-source in-memory caching library for Java applications.
Free planSelf-hosted6.1Free plan - 10
Alibaba Cloud Tair
Alibaba Cloud Tair is a cloud database service compatible with the open-source Redis protocol, intended for high-throughput, low-latency operations.
Free planWebAPI6.0Free plan - 11
Infinispan
Infinispan is an open-source distributed in-memory database that combines caching with full-text and vector search.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 12
Memcached
Memcached is a free, self-hosted in-memory key-value cache for reducing database load in dynamic web applications.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 13
Ristretto
Ristretto is a free, open-source Go library for an in-process cache of key-value data.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.0Free plan - 14
Varnish Cache
Varnish Cache is a free, self-hosted reverse caching proxy for Linux.
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 15
Hazelcast Platform
Hazelcast Platform brings a distributed compute engine and fast data store together in one runtime for real-time and AI-driven applications.
APILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted5.8 - 16
Momento Cache
Momento Cache is a fully managed Valkey service with dedicated capacity for application data, database query results, API responses, static assets,…
WebAPI5.7From $0.02 a month - 17
Azure Managed Redis
Azure Managed Redis is a Microsoft-operated, Azure-hosted in-memory data store based on Redis Enterprise software.
WebAPI5.4 - 18
DigitalOcean Managed Caching for Valkey
DigitalOcean Managed Caching for Valkey is a managed web service for caching data.
Web5.4From $15 a month - 19
Varnish Enterprise
Varnish Enterprise is a paid, programmable delivery layer for live video, dynamic web and API traffic, and CI/CD artifacts.
LinuxSelf-hosted5.4 - 20
5.3From $0.01 a month - 21
simpleCache
simpleCache is a free R package that saves and reuses R objects in analysis pipelines.
macOSWindows5.0 - 22
Google Guava Cache
Google Guava Cache is a free, self-hosted cache for application objects, computed values, and database-backed values.
AndroidLinuxWindows4.9 - 234.8
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- 254.6