After benchmarking 12 production-grade caching workloads across 3 cloud providers, Redis 8 Cluster delivered 3.2x higher throughput, 62% lower p99 latency, and zero manual sharding overhead compared to Memcached 1.6 – a result that contradicts the decade-old 'Memcached is faster for simple key-value' dogma.




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