title: MS Velocity vs Memcached for Windows?
body: <p>I've been paying some attention to Microsoft's fairly recent promoting of Velocity as a distributed caching solution that would compete with the likes of Memcached.</p>
  
  <p>I've been looking for a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8896/memcached-on-windows-x64">64bit version of Memcached for Windows for some time now</a> with no luck, and since everything about the ASP.Net MVC project I'm working on is 64bit, it doesn't make sense to use anything but 64bit.</p>
  
  <p>Now we're already hedging our bets with ASP.NET MVC in Beta (RTM soon hopefully), but StackOverflow doesn't seem to be doing too badly, so I have limited concerns there. But Velocity is still very much an unknown quantity and will still be Beta (or CTP) for ages - but it <em>does have</em> 64bit!</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have relevant experience or point of view to offer in this situation? Should we bide our time for Velocity - is it even anywhere near good enough to compete with a giant like Memcached, or should we invest time trying to get a 64bit version of Memcached going?</p>