1.All text based and binary based memcached protocol implementation

2.Synchronous API

3.Multithreaded

4.Multiple server nodes with consistent hash or standard hash.

5.Use JMX to montior and control.

6. Weighted server.

7.Add/Remove server or change server's weight dynamically.

8.Client statistics.

9.Auto reconnection and heartbeat to keepalive.

10.Spring and hibernate-memcached integration(since 1.2.0)

11.Nio connection pool (since 1.2.0)

12.Failure mode and standby nodes (since 1.3.0).

12.Support kestrel (since 1.2.0)