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Cache projects on GitHub

Caching layers and data caching strategies

As of , the most-starred Cache projects on GitHub are laravel (85.2K stars), redis (76.9K stars) and query (50.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 29 Cache repositories with 639.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was redis, with +22 stars in a day.

29Projects
639.5KStars in total
+102Stars in a day

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29 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · laravel/laravel

    laravel

    Laravel is a PHP web application framework with expressive syntax that handles routing, dependency injection, sessions/caching, database ORM, schema migrations, background jobs, and real-time event broadcasting so you can focus on building your app.

    85.2K
  2. #2 · redis/redis

    redis

    Redis is an in-memory server used as a cache, data structure store, and document/vector query engine for building real-time, data-driven applications.

    76.9K
  3. #3 · TanStack/query

    query

    TanStack Query is an async state management library that simplifies fetching, caching, synchronizing, and updating server state in web apps.

    50.4K
  1. 4

    spring-boot-demo

    34.1Kxkcoding/spring-boot-demo · Java

    A large collection of hands-on Spring Boot demos: 66 planned integration modules (55 finished) covering ORM, caching, messaging, security, databases, logging and more, meant for learning Spring Boot by example.

  2. 5

    AndroidUtilCode

    33.6KBlankj/AndroidUtilCode · Java

    AndroidUtilCode is a powerful and easy-to-use library of utility classes for Android development, collecting commonly used helper functions so developers do not have to rewrite them in every project.

  3. 6

    swr

    32.5Kvercel/swr · TypeScript

    SWR is a React Hooks library for data fetching. The name comes from stale-while-revalidate (HTTP RFC 5861): cached data is shown first, then the request revalidates and fresh data updates the UI.

  4. 7

    beego

    32.4Kbeego/beego · Go

    Beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for Go, aimed at rapid development of enterprise applications: RESTful APIs, web apps and backend services.

  5. 8

    dragonfly

    31.8Kdragonflydb/dragonfly · C++

    An in-memory data store built as a modern replacement for Redis and Memcached — fully compatible with both APIs, so no code changes needed; it claims 25X more throughput on up to 80% fewer resources.

  6. 9

    valkey

    27.4Kvalkey-io/valkey · C

    Valkey is an open-source, high-performance data structure server for key/value workloads like caching and other realtime use cases. It ships a wide range of native structures plus a plugin system for adding new ones.

  7. 10

    SDWebImage

    25.6KSDWebImage/SDWebImage · Objective-C

    SDWebImage is an asynchronous image downloader with memory and disk caching for Apple apps, integrated as a category on UI elements like UIImageView and UIButton — you give it a URL and it loads, caches and displays the image.

  8. 11

    iris

    25.6Kkataras/iris · Go

    Iris is an open-source web framework for Go for building websites and APIs. It bills itself as fast, fully featured and easy to learn, with MVC, sessions, websockets and lots of built-in middleware.

  9. 12

    redisson

    24.4Kredisson/redisson · Java

    A Java client and real-time data platform for Redis and Valkey: 50+ distributed Java objects, collections and services — maps, queues, locks, rate limiters, bloom filters, schedulers — beyond what Redis offers natively.

  10. 13

    Kingfisher

    24.4Konevcat/Kingfisher · Swift

    A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web in iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS and visionOS apps — you give it a URL and it fetches, caches and displays the image.

  11. 14

    system-design-resources

    18.5KInterviewReady/system-design-resources

    A curated collection of the best System Design resources on the Internet — one README that organizes engineering writeups, papers and talks into a topic-by-topic reading list.

  12. 15

    memcached

    14.3Kmemcached/memcached · C

    Memcached is a high-performance, multithreaded, event-based key/value cache store designed for use in distributed systems.

  13. 16

    YYKit

    14Kibireme/YYKit · Objective-C

    YYKit is a large collection of iOS components, bundling several independent libraries for high-performance model mapping, caching, image loading/decoding, rich text rendering, keyboard tracking and async drawing.

  14. 17

    groupcache

    13.3Kgolang/groupcache · Go

    groupcache is a distributed caching and cache-filling library for Go, built as a replacement for a pool of memcached nodes in many cases.

  15. 18

    KeyDB

    12.5KSnapchat/KeyDB · C++

    KeyDB is a multithreaded fork of Redis focused on performance, memory efficiency, and high throughput, offering extra features like Active Replication and Subkey Expires.

  16. 19

    twemproxy

    12.3Ktwitter/twemproxy · C

    Twemproxy (nutcracker) is a fast, lightweight proxy that sits in front of memcached and redis servers, reducing the number of connections to the caching backend.

  17. 20

    garnet

    12.1Kmicrosoft/garnet · C#

    Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research: a key-value server that existing Redis clients can talk to, built for high throughput, low latency, persistence, and cluster sharding.

  18. 21

    dicedb

    10.8Kdicedb/dicedb · C

    DiceDB is a fork of Valkey (itself a fork of Redis) that extends Valkey with extra capabilities, such as spilling evicted keys to disk, while staying fully compatible with the Valkey and Redis tooling and SDK ecosystem.

  19. 22

    redis

    10.3Ktporadowski/redis · C

    This is an unofficial native port of Redis for Windows x64. Redis is an in-memory key-value database that persists on disk, and this project rebuilds it so it runs as a real Windows program.

  20. 23

    phpredis

    10.2Kphpredis/phpredis · C

    A PHP extension that gives PHP a fast API for talking to the Redis key-value store. It also works with Valkey, Dragonfly, and KeyDB, and is released under the PHP License 3.01.

  21. 24

    opencode-dynamic-context-pruning

    4.4KTarquinen/opencode-dynamic-context-pruning · TypeScript

    Dynamic Context Pruning (DCP) is a plugin for OpenCode that automatically cuts token usage by intelligently managing conversation context — compressing stale history into summaries, deduplicating repeated tool calls, and purging failed tool-call inputs.

  22. 25

    cpu-performance-engineering

    1.2Kusamahz/cpu-performance-engineering · Python

    A curated reading path for CPU performance engineering: it walks you from what one instruction does on a modern core to serving ML inference on CPUs, ordered so each piece makes the next one legible.

  23. 26

    mr-boxington

    517jdx/mr-boxington · Rust

    mbx is a build cache for Rust projects. Cargo still resolves dependencies, plans builds and runs your tools; mbx restores matching compiler outputs from one shared store and only compiles the rest.

  24. 27

    ProxyNodeHub

    464wanvfx/ProxyNodeHub · C#

    ProxyNodeHub is a Windows desktop tool that scans GitHub for active free proxy node repositories, scores their activity, deduplicates the nodes it finds, and outputs a ready-to-use subscription link with one click.

  25. 28

    win11-storage-governance-kit

    188Nongfsq/win11-storage-governance-kit · Python

    A Codex Skills kit that turns a practical Windows 11 C-drive cleanup workflow into a reusable agent skill and reference runbook for governing storage (not just deleting files).

  26. 29

    financial-intelligence-system

    171zhangzf1119/financial-intelligence-system · Java

    FinSight Enterprise Backend is a Spring Boot 3 backend for an enterprise intelligent management platform, covering RBAC, logging, monitoring, a file center, workflow approvals, in-app instant messaging, AI model chat and a RAG knowledge base.

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