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# Meet Pogocache: The High-Performance, Multi-Protocol Redis Alternative
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/pogocache/
- Published: 2025-09-02T10:48:36.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-02T10:48:36.000Z
- Description: Redis, who? Pogocache offers speed, simplicity, and flexibility for modern caching needs.
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: Open Source, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

Caching systems are critical in modern applications, speeding up data access and reducing database load. The space has known names like [Redis](https://redis.io/?ref=itsfoss.com), [Memcached](https://memcached.org/?ref=itsfoss.com), [Valkey](https://valkey.io/?ref=itsfoss.com), [Dragonfly](https://www.dragonflydb.io/?ref=itsfoss.com), and [Garnet](https://microsoft.github.io/garnet/?ref=itsfoss.com), who have established themselves with reliable performance and broad adoption across industries.

And now, there's a new contender that aims to offer fast, flexible caching while supporting protocols that developers already use.

## Pogocache: A Fresh Approach

![a terminal window is shown with the ./pogocache command executed, there is a bunch of config information on the screen in text, and the pink-colored pogocache logo has been inserted on the bottom right](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2025/09/pogocache-demo.png)

[Pogocache](https://pogocache.com/?ref=itsfoss.com) is **a C-based, open source cache server** built for speed and simplicity. It supports multiple protocols and offers exceptionally low latency while integrating seamlessly with existing tools and client libraries.

It can run as a standalone server or be embedded into applications via a single C file. In embedded mode, it can perform more than a hundred million operations per second with minimal overhead.

Pogocache **is released under the AGPL-3.0 license**, ensuring it remains open and community-friendly, and the project is maintained by [Josh Baker](https://github.com/tidwall?ref=itsfoss.com) (*Tidwall*), who has created high-performance database tools in the past.

It supports [HTTP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP?ref=itsfoss.com), the [Memcache](https://docs.memcached.org/protocols/?ref=itsfoss.com) protocol used by Memcached, Redis’s [RESP](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/protocol-spec/?ref=itsfoss.com), and Postgres-style wire protocols. This means that developers can use curl, psql, or Redis clients without needing to learn new APIs.

As for its performance, [in benchmarks](https://github.com/tidwall/cache-benchmarks?ref=itsfoss.com) conducted on an [AWS c8g.8xlarge](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c8g/?ref=itsfoss.com#:~:text=Up%20to%2010-,c8g.8xlarge,-32) instance, Pogocache achieved 3.14 million queries per second (*QPS*), surpassing Memcache (*2.60M QPS*), Redis (*1.51M QPS*), Valkey (*1.33M QPS*), Dragonfly (*1.41M QPS*), and Garnet (*1.54M QPS*).

Currently, Pogocache’s free Community edition is open source and [available now](https://pogocache.com/pricing?ref=itsfoss.com). A managed *Cloud* edition is in development with automated scaling and backups, while the *Enterprise* option offers on-prem and private cloud deployments with commercial support.

## Get Pogocache

The source code for Pogocache is hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/tidwall/pogocache?ref=itsfoss.com), and you can get it for your Linux server by following one of the two installation methods mentioned below.

[Pogocache](https://github.com/tidwall/pogocache?ref=itsfoss.com)

The first method is to install it [using Docker](https://linuxhandbook.com/courses/docker/?ref=itsfoss.com). After ensuring that you have the prerequisites, you can run this command:

```
docker run --net=host pogocache/pogocache
```

For the second method, you will have to build Pogocache from source. First, clone the Git repo:

```
git clone https://github.com/tidwall/pogocache

```

Next, switch to the directory where you downloaded the files, usually *Downloads*:

```
cd Downloads
```

Now, run this to build Pogocache:

```
make
```

If everything goes smoothly, you can run the following command to run it:

```
./pogocache
```

After this, check the [official documentation](https://pogocache.com/docs/configuration?ref=itsfoss.com) for additional resources on configuring Pogocache.