We Compared ScyllaDB and Memcached and… We Lost?

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ScyllaDB would like to publicly acknowledge dormando (Memcached maintainer) and Danny Kopping for their contributions to this project, as well as thank them for their support and patience.

Engineers behind ScyllaDB – the database for predictable performance at scale – joined forces with Memcached maintainer dormando to compare both technologies head-to-head, in a collaborative vendor-neutral way.

This document explains our motivation for these tests, provides a summary of the tested scenarios and results, then presents recommendations for anyone who might be deciding between ScyllaDB and Memcached. Along the way, we analyze the architectural differences behind these two solutions and discuss the tradeoffs involved in each.

There’s also a detailed Gitbook for this project, with a more extensive look at the tests and results and links to the specific configurations you can use to perform the tests yourself.

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