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GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
Not too different from Redis at the moment, however this is straight out of a university project were we had a tight deadline and had to limit scope considerably but if you check the roadmap on the repo we want to add a lot to it.
GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
Depending on the use case. If this is being used to reduce load on your database, then there are no noticeable differences between performance of GhostDB or redis from the clients end.
GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
I'm not aware of these so I can't say
GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
The clients are the SDKs. Our docs are getting an update now to better explain how to configure clusters.

The SDKs are in separate repos currently (this is due to how university made us structure the project).

GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
Currently we follow the memcached model so there is no replication however, remember this is straight out of university were we had to limit scope considerably and were on a tight time constraint but we aim to add data replication, consensus etc.
GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
In-memory data lookup

Relational and Non-relational database speedup

Managing spikes in web/mobile apps

Session-store

Token caching

Gaming - Player profiles & leaderboards

Web page caching

Global ID or counter generation

Fast access to any suitable data

GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
I don't know much about electron but if it allows you to bundle binaries and execute them then yes!
GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
Adding support for sets is on our roadmap!
GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
I've never heard of this so I can't say.
GhostDBCache··on GhostDB – A Fast Distributed Cache
We're aware of the issues this could cause and we will be looking into relieving GC pressure