What is Memcache and Memcached in PHP?

Memcached is an efficient caching daemon designed specifically for decreasing database load in dynamic web applications. Memcache offers a handy procedural and object-oriented interface to Memcached.

Memcache is a memory storage space. We can run Memcache on single or several servers. Therefore, it is possible to share a single instance of Memcache between multiple projects.

It is possible to configure a client to speak to a separate set of instances. Therefore, it is allowed to run two different Memcache processes on the same host. Despite running on the same host, both of such Memcache processes stay independent, unless there is a partition of data.