Cache Offerings
ElastiCache comes in two offering,
Redis
Memcached
The below table summarizes some of the features offered by both offerings.
Redis
Memcached
Multi-AZ with Auto-Failover
Uses sharding to partition the data
Read Replicas to scale reads and have high availability
No replication, hence no HA
Data durability using AOF persistence
No persistence
BackUp and restore
No backup and restore
Supports Sets and Sorted Sets
Multi-threaded architecture
MemoryDB for Redis
An in memory database that has Redis compatible API and is durable.
Ultra fast performance with over 160 million requests/second.
Durable in-memory data storage with Multi-AZ transactional log.
Scale seamlessly from 10s of GB to 100s of TB storage.
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