jiangwenyuan/nuster

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Nuster is a high-performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL key-value cache server built on top of HAProxy, written in C. It is 100% HAProxy-compatible and uses HAProxy ACLs to define fine-grained caching policies based on request, response, or server state.

Use cases

• cache dynamic and static HTTP responses like varnish or nginx fastcgi cache
• speed up my api by caching responses at a reverse proxy
• use a fast key-value cache over HTTP instead of memcached or redis
• load balance backend servers with built-in caching
• purge or invalidate cached HTTP responses via a management API
• store per-user data in a RESTful cache using cookies or headers

When to choose

• you want HAProxy compatibility plus caching in a single high-performance proxy
• you need fine-grained cache rules based on headers, cookies, URI, or server state
• you want a RESTful HTTP key-value cache usable from any language
• benchmarks matter and you need faster caching than nginx or varnish

When to avoid

• you need a actively developed project with recent releases and ongoing maintenance
• you need TLS termination features beyond what HAProxy provides
• you prefer a cache with a large ecosystem of plugins and community modules
• you need a managed or cloud-native cache service

Facets

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caching http-server proxy load-testing middleware web-development backend databases performance networking cross-platform self-hosted http-cache reverse-proxy nosql-cache key-value-store haproxy-based restful-cache load-balancer linux web-server

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