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pymemcache

A comprehensive, fast, pure-Python memcached client.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pymemcache has 2.8M monthly downloads and 839 GitHub stars. Version 4.0.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2013.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2022.

It is used by 59 tracked packages, including google-cloud-ndb, django-pymemcache and django-elastipymemcache.

GitHub topics include memcache and memcached.

Downloads
Day
89.2K
Week
629.9K
Month
2.8M
Stars
839
Forks
187
Issues
23
Version
4.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
63
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
362 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,770,941
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
• Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,770,941
Stars
839
Stars per 1k downloads
0.30
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
89,980
Month daily avg
92,365
Momentum
-2.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache License 2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1358 days ago
Total releases
55
Releases/year
4.1
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
102
Monthly downloads
2,770,941
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
77
 
Issue Burden
27.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
54.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
995d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 44.8K
Windows 246
macOS 39

Python Versions

3.11
48.4% 19.1K
3.12
21.2% 8.4K
3.10
14.0% 5.5K
3.13
10.8% 4.3K
3.9
5.6% 2.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
26.9K
2. DE DE
4.2K
3. CA CA
2.2K
4. IE IE
1.4K
5. SG SG
1.0K
6. JP JP
1.0K
7. GB GB
860
8. IN IN
823
9. AU AU
784
10. HK HK
779
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
February 9, 2013
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
12 months ago
Latest Version
4.0.0
Total Releases
55
Contributors
102
Open PRs
14
Archived
No
Author
Jon Parise
Python Versions
3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
memcache client database
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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