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<?h1 See Wiki h1?>

<p>You probably want <a
href="http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/Clients">the client list at the
wiki</a>, as it is actually kept up to date.</p>

<?h1 Perl API h1?>

<p> An object-oriented Perl module can be <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Cache-Memcached/">found
on CPAN</a> as <tt>Cache::Memcached</tt> or <a href="http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/trunk/api/perl/">
in Subversion</a> (<a href="http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/trunk/api/perl/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>).
(GPL/Artistic)</p>

<p>The Perl API takes advantage of the server's opaque flag support and
sets its "complex" flag whenever the object being stored or retrieved
isn't a plain scalar.  In that case, the <tt>Storable</tt> module is
used to freeze and thaw the value automatically going in and out of
the memcached.</p>

<p>There is also Cache::Memcached::Fast---another Perl client written in C,
largely compatible with the original Cache::Memcached. Available on CPAN at <a
href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Cache-Memcached-Fast/">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Cache-Memcached-Fast/</a>.</p>

<?h1 PHP API h1?>

<p>There are tons of PHP libraries available, in different conditions.  But it now seems there's an official one:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://pecl.php.net/package/memcache">PHP PECL memcached client</a> -- official PHP client</li>
</ul>

<?h1 Python API h1?>

<p>The Python client we'd previously released was just a prototype, and we don't have regular Python programmers on hand.  The folks at Tummy.com have took over maintenance.  See <a href="ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/python-memcached/">ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/python-memcached/</a> for the latest versions.</p>

<?h1 Ruby API h1?>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.deveiate.org/code/Ruby-MemCache.html">http://www.deveiate.org/code/Ruby-MemCache.html</a></li>
<li>gem install memcache-client</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/memcached/">http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/doc/fauna/memcached/</a>. C backed client wrapping libmemcached.
</ul>

<?h1 Java API h1?>
<p>A Java API is maintained by <a href="mailto:greg@meetup.com">Greg Whalin</a> from <a href="http://www.meetup.com/">Meetup.com</a>.  You can find that library here:

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.whalin.com/memcached/">http://www.whalin.com/memcached/</a> -- Java API for memcached</li>
</ul>

<p>An improved Java API maintained by Dustin Sallings is also available.  Aggressively optimised, ability to run async, supports binary protocol, etc. See site for details:

<ul>
<li><a
href="http://bleu.west.spy.net/~dustin/projects/memcached/">http://bleu.west.spy.net/~dustin/projects/memcached/</a> -- Improved Java API for memcached</li>
</ul>

<?h1 C# API h1?>
<p>There are multiple C# APIs:

<ul>
<li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/memcacheddotnet/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/memcacheddotnet/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/EnyimMemcached/">http://www.codeplex.com/EnyimMemcached/</a> - Client developed in .NET 2.0 keeping performance and extensibility in mind. (Supports consistent hashing.)</li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/beitmemcached/">http://code.google.com/p/beitmemcached/</a> - Client developed by BeIT with many new features.</li>
</ul>

<?h1 C API h1?>
<p>Multiple C libraries for memcached exist:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.outoforder.cc/projects/libs/apr_memcache/">apr_memcache</a> by Paul Querna; Apache Software License version 2.0</li>
<li><a href="http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html">libmemcached</a> by Brian Aker; BSD license. This is a new library, under heavy development.</li>
<li><a href="http://people.freebsd.org/~seanc/libmemcache/">libmemcache</a> by Sean Chittenden; BSD license. This is the original C library. It is no longer under active development. You should try libmemcached instead.</li>
</ul>

<?h1 Postgres API h1?>
<p>The pgmemcache project allows
you to access memcache servers from Postgresql Stored Procedures and Triggers.  
More details and downloads are available at:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgmemcache/">http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgmemcache/</a></li>
</ul>

<?h1 Chicken Scheme h1?>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://chicken.wiki.br/memcached">http://chicken.wiki.br/memcached</a> -- Chicken Scheme library</li>
</ul>

<?h1 Lua h1?>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://luamemcached.luaforge.net/">http://luamemcached.luaforge.net/</a> -- Lua library</li>
</ul>

<?h1 MySQL API h1?>
<p>The memcache_engine allows memcache to work as a storage engine to MySQL.
This means that you can SELECT/UPDATE/INSERTE/DELETE from it as though it is a
table in MySQL.
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://tangent.org/index.pl?node_id=506">memcache_engine</a></li>
</ul>
<p>A set of MySQL UDFs (user defined functions) to work with memcached using
libmemcached.
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://tangent.org/586/Memcached_Functions_for_MySQL.html">MySQL
UDFs for memcached</a></li>
</ul>

<?h1 Protocol h1?> <p>To write a new client, check out the <a
href="http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/trunk/server/doc/protocol.txt">protocol
docs</a>.  Be aware that the most important part of the client is the
hashing across multiple servers, based on the key, or an optional
caller-provided hashing value.  Feel free to join the mailing list (or
mail me directly) for help, inclusion in Subversion, and/or a link to your
client from this site.</p>

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