Laosheng a long conversation. I'll tidy it up here.
Memcache's document in: Http://pecl.php.net/package/memcache
Memcached's document in: http://pecl.php.net/package/memcached
First look at the time, Memcache was first developed in February 2004, the last update is in April 2013, and Memcached was first developed in January 2009, the last update is in January 2014 updated. So Memcache's history is earlier than memcached.
Installing the memcache extension does not require the installation of other things, but in the installation of memcached will require you to install libmemcached, the problem, libmemcached is the C client of Memcache, it has the advantage of low memory, Line Cheng and other characteristics. such as Sina Weibo before the full memcache of PHP to replace the PHP memcached, in high concurrency, stability decisively improved.
List of Memcache methods in: Http://cn2.php.net/memcache
List of memcached methods in: http://www.php.net/manual/zh/book.memcached.php
Memcache methods are particularly rare, such as getmulti,setmulti are not, basic left the simplest get and set. So "memcached than memcache to support more memcache protocol."
Then memcached directly configured the session support, as long as a slight modification of the configuration file can be stored in the session memcache.
PHP memcache and memcached extension difference "reprint"