eko/gocache

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Gocache is an extensible Go caching library providing a unified API over multiple cache stores such as in-memory (bigcache, ristretto, go-cache, freecache), Redis, Memcache, Pegasus, and Hazelcast. It supports chained caches with priority ordering, loadable caches via callbacks, tag-based invalidation, generics, and Prometheus metrics.

Use cases

• cache data in Go with a unified API across memory and Redis
• add a memory cache that falls back to a shared distributed cache
• track cache hits, misses, and set errors with Prometheus
• invalidate cached items by expiration time or tags
• automatically load data into cache via a callback function
• marshal and unmarshal cached values as Go structs

When to choose

• you need one consistent cache interface across multiple backends in Go
• you want layered caching (local memory plus distributed Redis)
• you need cache usage metrics exported to Prometheus
• you want tag-based or expiration-based cache invalidation

When to avoid

• you only need a simple single in-memory cache with no abstraction
• your project is not written in Go
• you need features like cross-instance invalidation or persistence built in

Facets

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caching serialization monitoring developer-tools backend databases web-development go cross-platform cache-library multi-store chain-cache redis memcache ristretto bigcache prometheus-metrics tag-invalidation generics

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