symfony/cache

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The Symfony Cache component provides extended PSR-6 and PSR-16 caching implementations with adapters for common backends like Redis, Memcached, APCu, databases, and the filesystem. It adds advanced features such as tag-based invalidation, cache stampede prevention, and Symfony Cache Contracts interoperability, usable in any PHP application.

Use cases

• cache expensive database queries in a PHP app
• add PSR-6 or PSR-16 compliant caching to any PHP project
• cache results of external HTTP API calls
• invalidate cached data by tags
• prevent cache stampedes on popular keys
• chain multiple cache backends with fallback
• store computed results on the filesystem or in Redis

When to choose

• you need standards-compliant (PSR-6/PSR-16) caching in PHP
• you want adapters for many backends with one consistent API
• you need tag-based invalidation or stampede protection
• you are building a Symfony application and want first-party integration

When to avoid

• you are not working in PHP
• you need a standalone caching server rather than a client library
• you want a framework-agnostic caching layer outside the PHP ecosystem

Facets

library · maturity stable

caching serialization web-development backend performance developer-tools php cross-platform psr-6 psr-16 cache-adapters tag-invalidation symfony-component redis memcached apcu

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