Redis and Memcache or just Redis?

Question

I\'m using memcached for some caching in my Rails 3 app through the simple Rails.cache interface and now I\'d like to do some background job processing with red

Answer 1

I asked the team at Redis Labs (who provide the Memcached Cloud and Redis Cloud add ons) about which product they would recommend for Rails caching. They said that in general they would recommend Redis Cloud, that Memcached Cloud is mainly offered for legacy purposes, and pointed out that their Memcached Cloud service is in fact build on top of Redis Cloud.