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Memcached Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) White Paper

The open-source distributed memory caching system Memcached has grown rapidly as a way for operators and developers of complex web sites to scale their sites.

Gear6 offers a Memcached protocol-compliant solution called Gear6 Web Cache, which offers all the advantages of Memcached along with significant advances in scalability, cost, high availability and manageability. This white paper quantifies these advantages through a comparison of the two systems. It focuses on three of the most important cost areas related to web caching: equipment purchase and data center operational costs, cost related to failures and/or high availability, and costs related to cache tier management. Gear6 yields substantial TCO benefits in each area.