In Memory Glossary

Browse 4 in memory terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

4 In Memory Terms

DragonflyDB

An in-memory datastore positioned as a high-performance alternative for cache and key-value workloads.

Local Cache

An in-process cache that stores frequently accessed data in the application's own memory space, avoiding network round-trips to an external cache like Redis....

Redis

Redis, short for Remote Dictionary Server, is an open-source, in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine....

Valkey

An open-source in-memory data-store fork that emerged in response to licensing concerns around Redis.

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