Memcached is a generic memory object caching system for increasing the load speed of dynamic database-driven sites. It is used to lower the number of times an external data source (such as a DB or API) is read by caching data and objects in RAM. The Memcached memory object caching system uses a client'server architecture. The Memcached distributed memory object caching system is used by some of the most traffic-heavy websites on the Internet and is supported by famous web applications like Joomla and WordPress.