[antirez]

Hello, it's a shame I was not able to provide numbers. I did in the past, and went to the point of porting redis-benchmark to memcached in order to test it in a very similar fashion, but now the code is deprecated and I've no easy way to test it again. From what I saw back then, the difference "per core" is not going to be big either side. I remember Redis was faster in my tests per single core, but after that both Redis and Memcached got many optimizations, so now it can be the other way around. But I doubt to spot huge differences. Yet... it's worth to try and maybe Redis Labs memtier_benchmark may be helpful here: https://redislabs.com/blog/memtier_benchmark-a-high-throughp.... Soon or later I'll try again, this may be very useful to spot inefficiencies in both sides.

[itamarhaber]

I took the liberty of doing a very naive test on my laptop's VM - the results are at https://gist.github.com/itamarhaber/2ed09513ec6f6ae10071.

  Memcached text: 43585 OPS @ 4.58 msec 
  Memcached binary: 40242 OPS @ 4.96 msec
  Redis: 39727 OPS @ 5.03 msec
  Redis, pipeline 4: 131312 OPS @ 6.09 msec