List of Caching Modules that make Drupal scale
Published by drupal_developer on November 14th, 2009
- Authcache offers page caching for both anonymous users and logged-in authenticated users. It uses now the standard database cache by default, but it can have a recommended modular integration with cache handler modules such as Cache Router or Memcache, to improve the performance results
- Boost provides static page caching, using .htaccess to completely bypass PHP and database for anonymous users. This gives excellent speed and performance similar to those of static HTML sites, which servers such as Apache can easily handle at high rates of hundreds of requests per second. Like webhosts often say, that rate falls to a few requests per second when using dynamic content (PHP, etc.). See Static Page Caching for Drupal, with performance graphs comparing standard database cache and static page cache.
- Memcache includes an API for using Memcached and the PECL Memcache library with Drupal. It decreases database load by storing objects in memory.
- Throttle is an optional core module for congestion control. It has been removed from Drupal 7.x-dev.
