Run Memcached on Arm servers and measure its performance
Introduction
Run and test Memcached on Arm servers
Next Steps
Run Memcached on Arm servers and measure its performance
Who is this for?
This is an introductory topic for developers who want to use memcached as their in-memory key-value store.
What will you learn?
After completing this Learning Path, you'll be able to perform the following tasks:
- Install and run memcached on your Arm-based cloud server
- Use an open-source benchmark to test memcached performance
Prerequisites
Before starting, you'll need the following prerequisites:
- An Arm based instance from an appropriate cloud service provider.
Summary
This summary was drafted with an approved AI-assisted workflow and reviewed by Arm contributors before publication. Human technical review remains part of the process so the final page reflects engineering rigor, accuracy, and Arm editorial standards.
You’ll deploy and benchmark Memcached on an Arm-based cloud server. First, you’ll provision an Ubuntu instance on AWS Graviton or OCI Ampere Compute, then install
libevent, build tools, and the Memcached service. You’ll prepare memtier_benchmark, verify that the service is available, and run a workload to generate performance results. The completed setup gives you a repeatable baseline for testing Memcached on Arm infrastructure.