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I want to know if there is a good driver or native implementation to connect node.js directly to memcached.

Cœur
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Ezequiel
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Here's my experience of using couple of node-memcached modules

  1. 3rd-Eden/node-memcached. The project doesn't seem to be stable and has bugs with storing BLOBS (see issue #46 and issue #48 for details). Moreover I found it's code quite hard to read (and thus hard to update), so I wouldn't suggest using it in your projects.

  2. elbart/node-memcache seems to work fine, and I feel good about the way it's source code is written, but it doesn't support storing BLOBs (there's a fork that is said to add the ability, but I haven't tested it)

  3. overclocked/mc is the one I like a lot. This is the only one that is capable of storing BLOBs. It has nice documentation, its code looks good and it is easy-to-use.

Currently I use overclocked/mc in my project and everything seems to be working fine.

Andrey Lushnikov
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Use the search on: https://npmjs.org/

If you don't have npm, install it.

On the cli:

npm search memcache

Brings up 5 modules.

This seems to be the most popular: https://github.com/3rd-Eden/node-memcached

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Josh
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  • lmgtfy is deprecated. This isn't a feed vs fish question - it's a request, however subjective, on what are good memcached modules. btw npm search is always super slow. – ekeyser Mar 31 '16 at 21:57
  • I found working demo at https://jsonworld.com/demo/how-to-implement-memcached-in-nodejs-application – Pankaj Apr 13 '19 at 13:43
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The basic idea. 

net = require("net");

var client = net.connect({port: 11211, host:"localhost"},function() { 
    console.log('connected');

    client.write('stats\r\n');
    //OR other commands + "\r\n"

    client.on('data', function(data) {
        console.log(data.toString());
    });

    client.on('end', function() {
        console.log('data fetched');
    });
});

Also you can use net.createServer to make your own memory cache server to support additional requirements such as PERSISTENT YOUR CACHE DATA TO MYSQL.

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