Introduction This module allows Drupal cache bins to be stored in files instead of stored in database. This module is available for Drupal 7 and 8. Comparison with other caching modules memcache is the closest caching module. File Cache can be configured to use memory filesystem (e.g. /dev/shm in Debian) which is very close to what memcache do. File Cache can use network filesystems and this is another use case where memcache is traditionally used. apc can be used for cache bins too. If it's used for that purpose, it's usually only for some of the critical cache bins like cache and cache_bootstrap. boost generates caches of pages that are directly served by web server. File Cache can plug in regular Drupal page caching and provide very fast page caching but this still needs a bit of PHP to be executed. Database access can be avoided altogether though. See $conf['filecache_fast_pagecache'] in README.txt. Relation with cacherouter and fastpath_fscache modules for Drupal 6. Feedback