# Memcache

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Memcache module provides handy procedural and object-oriented interface to memcached, highly effective caching daemon, which was especially designed to decrease database load in dynamic web applications.

The Memcache module also provides a session handler (`memcache`).

More information about memcached can be found at &url.memcache;.

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