Libmemcached is a c and c++ client library to the memcached server (http://danga.com/memcached). it has been designed to be light on memory usage, thread safe, and provide full access to server side methods.

a few notes on its design:

* synchronous and asynchronous support.
* tcp and unix socket protocols.
* a half dozen or so different hash algorithms .
* implementations of the new cas, replace, and append operators.
* man pages written up on entire api.
* implements both modulo and consistent hashing solutions.