alternative to memcached that can persist to disk

Question

I am currently using memcached with my java app, and overall it\'s working great.

The features of memcached that are most important to me are:

• it\'s fast,

Answer 1

We are using OSCache. I think it meets almost all your needs except periodically saving cache to the disk, but you should be able to create 2 cache managers (one memory based and one hdd based) and periodically run java cronjob that goes through all in-memory cache key/value pairs and puts them into hdd cache. What's nice about OSCache is that it is very easy to use.