Re: [squid-users] Squid vs caching products like memcached

Words by lightbulb432 [Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:16:44AM -0700]:
>
> What’s the difference between the reverse proxying features of Squid and a
> caching product like memcached?
>

Memcache has nothing to do with proxying. Squid talks http and caches
http objects, memcache talks the memcache protocol and caches objects
(can be the key/value you want). memcache is not related (directily at
least) with http, it is just a cache engine, you have to program around
it to turn it into something useful.

>
> I don’t necessarily mean specific comparisons of both products (e.g.
> performance), but rather explanations of what both types of products do. I
> understand that there are some large-scale websites out there that make use
> of both, so clearly they are better at different things and both have a
> place in a given architecture.
>

Yes. At first Squid is something you put between the cliente and the web
server. Memcache is something you put between your web servers and your
database/filesystem/whatever, it stays on the backend.

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