title: Is memcached a dinosaur in comparison to Redis?
body: <p>I have worked quite a bit with memcached the last weeks and just found out about Redis. When I read this part of their readme, I suddenly got a warm, cozy feeling in my stomach:</p>
  
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    <p>Redis can be used as a memcached on steroids because is as fast as
    memcached but with a number of
    features more.
    Like memcached, Redis also supports setting timeouts to keys so
    that this key will be automatically
    removed when a given amount of time
    passes.</p>
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  <p>This sounds amazing. I'd also found this page with benchmarks: <a href="http://www.ruturaj.net/redis-memcached-tokyo-tyrant-mysql-comparison" rel="noreferrer">http://www.ruturaj.net/redis-memcached-tokyo-tyrant-mysql-comparison</a></p>
  
  <p>So, honestly - Is memcache really that old dinousaur that is a bad choice from a performance perspective when compared to this newcomer called Redis?</p>
  
  <p>I haven't heard lot about Redis previously, thereby the approach for my question!</p>