# 3rd-Eden/memcached

A fully featured Memcached client build on top of Node.js. Build with scaling in mind so it will support Memcached clusters and consistent hashing.

Repository: https://github.com/3rd-Eden/memcached
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/3rd-eden-memcached
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-07-12T10:22:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5895, "days_push": 1513, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1313, forks 275 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:20.373602+00:00)

## What it is
A fully featured Memcached client library for Node.js built with scaling and high availability in mind. It supports Memcached clusters via consistent hashing (libketama-compatible) and configurable failure handling with events.

## Use cases
- connect to memcached from node.js
- cache data across a memcached cluster
- use consistent hashing to distribute cache keys
- handle memcached server failover in node
- get and set values in memcached
- configure cache miss behavior when a memcached server goes down

## When to choose
- you need a Node.js client for Memcached with cluster support
- you want consistent hashing and failover options for your cache layer
- you need event-based error reporting for cache server issues

## When to avoid
- you need SASL authentication, as only the ASCII protocol is supported
- you use Redis instead of Memcached
- you need a client with active ongoing development

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: caching, database-driver, http-server
- domain: databases, backend, developer-tools, performance
- platform: -
- tags: memcached, consistent-hashing, cache-client, ketama, distributed-cache, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- 3rd-Eden/memcached (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.373602+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:48:48.886381+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/3rd-Eden/memcached (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.373602+00:00, sha 3d1f06a3ae84)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.