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Asked: 2026-05-14T04:48:34+00:00

I hear much talk about memcached , but when briefly studied on it, I

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I hear much talk about memcached, but when briefly studied on it, I couldn’t understand what advantages I can take instead of using the good old Dictionary<string, object> to cache my data in my applications.

Can someone explain it to me?

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  1. Editorial Team

    As I understood after reading wikipedia and memcached.org it has at least following features

    • memcached acts like a service to your program, so if your program crash, memcached doesn’t
    • it can be distributed amount servers (scalability!)
    • it is cache not just dictionary, so it can delete data if it likes to (no overflow)

    similiar concept is not Dictionary<string, object> but HttpContext.Current.Cache, but still it is different

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