I was looking at MS's Velocity back in 2009 as an in-memory caching solution. Now since that point it has been rolled up in the AppFabric solution which does a host of things including caching. I have "Road tested" MemCached a a while back as well and found it a little unstable.
My question is: We are only looking for a caching solution and just was wondering which was faster to get up and running, is one more reliable then the other? Are there any other options out there?
Stack Overflow uses Redis according to this article on High Scalability
We've been using AppFabric on Woot.com for a while now and have found it pretty stable.
About the only thing I've seen regarding the reliability of memcached on Windows is in this answer from last year.
I've nothing really to compare AppFabric against so take this with a pinch of salt, but I found it pretty quick to get up and running - from the install to having some code running is under an hour. The TDD story isn't so good at the moment, there's a set of hoops to jump through - see Ron Jacobs blog for details.
Are there any other options out there?
Sure.
