Java Memcached Client

Question

Which is the best Java memcached client, and why?

Answer 1

There is the memcached client for Java and spymemcached. Not much experience with either though.

Answer 2

As of about a year ago, when I had to use a memcached java client, the spymemcached connector was described as an optimized API with more features. Since then there've been a number of new releases of the memcached client so it may be worth checking out.

FWIW the spy client has worked perfectly for me.

Answer 3

As the author of spymemcached, I'm a bit biased, but I'd say it's mine for the following reasons:

Designed from scratch to be non-blocking everywhere possible.

When you ask for data, issue a set, etc... there's one tiny concurrent queue insertion and you get a Future to block on results (with some convenience methods for common cases like get).

Optimized Aggressively

You can read more on my optimizations page, but I do whole-application optimization.

I still do pretty well in micro-benchmarks, but to compare fairly against the other client, you have to contrive unrealistic usage patterns (for example, waiting for the response on every set operation or building locks around gets to keep them from doing packet optimization).

Tested Obsessively

I maintain a pretty rigorous test suite with coverage reports on every release.

Bugs still slip in, but they're usually pretty minor, and the client just keeps getting better. :)

Well Documented

The examples page provides a quick introduction, but the javadoc goes into tremendous detail.

Provides High-level Abstractions

I've got a Map interface to the cache as well as a functional CAS abstraction. Both binary and text support an incr-with-default mechanism (provided by the binary protocol, but rather tricky in text).

Keeps up with the Specs

I do a lot of work on the server itself, so I keep up with protocol changes.

I did the first binary protocol server implementations (both a test server and in memcached itself), and this was the first production-ready client to support it, and does so first-class.

I've also got support for several hash algorithms and node distribution algorithms, all of which are well-tested for every build. You can do a stock ketama consistent hash, or a derivative using FNV-1 (or even java's native string hashing) if you want better performance.

Answer 4

I have been using SpyMemcached and have to agree that it is the best one available out there, with lots of newer improvements.

Answer 5

Please try xmemcached,it is also nio based,and have some powerfull features.

http://code.google.com/p/xmemcached/

Answer 6

I believe memcached java client is the best client.

Features

• Binary protocol support. fastest way to access the key/value stored in memcached server.
• UDP protocol support. You can set key with tcp protocol, and get with udp protocol. Acctually, some big corporations are doing like this.
• Support customized serialization and deserialization.
• Connection pool with NIO and direct buffer. Dynamically increase connections when out of use for the connection pool.

Performance

• Refer to performance for a benchmark test of existing popular memcached java clients.
• Deserializing while receiving the response
• Performance tuning into each line of the source code.

Answer 7

If these are numbers still valid, then ... http://xmemcached.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/benchmark/benchmark.html