Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached (http://memcached.org/) deployments. It's a core component of cache infrastructure at Facebook and Instagram where mcrouter handles almost 5 billion requests per second at peak.

Mcrouter is developed and maintained by Facebook.

See https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter/wiki to get started.

See https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter/wiki/mcrouter-installation for more detailed installation instructions.

Mcrouter depends on folly (https://github.com/facebook/folly).

The installation is a standard autotools flow:

$ autoreconf --install
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ mcrouter --help

Assuming you have a memcached instance on the local host running on port 5001, the simplest mcrouter setup is:

$ mcrouter \
    --config-str='{"pools":{"A":{"servers":["127.0.0.1:5001"]}},
                  "route":"PoolRoute|A"}' \
    -p 5000
$ echo -ne "get key\r\n" | nc 0 5000

(nc is the GNU Netcat, http://netcat.sourceforge.net/)

• Memcached ASCII protocol
• Connection pooling
• Multiple hashing schemes
• Prefix routing
• Replicated pools
• Production traffic shadowing
• Online reconfiguration
• Flexible routing
• Destination health monitoring/automatic failover
• Cold cache warm up
• Broadcast operations
• Reliable delete stream
• Multi-cluster support
• Rich stats and debug commands
• Quality of service
• Large values
• Multi-level caches
• IPv6 support
• SSL support

Documentation: https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter/wiki Engineering discussions and support: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mcrouter

Copyright (c) 2016, Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved.

Licensed under a BSD license: https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter/blob/master/LICENSE