BuildFetch Cache vs Ccache

BuildFetch Cache is a remote cache platform intended to reduce build times and CI costs across build systems. It lists native support for Bazel, Gradle, Maven, Sbt, Buck2, Moon, Buildbarn, Ccache, Sccache, Go, Nx, and Turborepo; its listed compiler and language support includes C, C++, Rust, Go, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, Scala, Assembly, CUDA, Objective-C, Objective-C++, and AMD ROCm HIP. Remote cache outputs can be shared across engineer workstations, CI, and AI agent environments. For Bazel, it supports both gRPC and HTTP remote cache APIs. BuildFetch uses NVMe for ephemeral cache storage and SSD for persistent storage, and its dashboard shows throughput, tail latency, request volume, and storage usage. Scoped project tokens can set read-only or read-write access. The product is offered through BuildFetch Cloud and can also be deployed in Custom Cloud or on-premise Kubernetes environments. The free Open Source plan has caps of 20GB fast cache storage, 50GB network traffic, and 100,000 cache requests, with 45 days LRU retention; those resource caps cannot be exceeded. Paid plans start at $55 a month, and a 45-day trial is listed for Custom. BuildFetch says data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Ccache is a build tool that can reduce repeated compilation work by storing prior results and recognizing when a single-file compilation recurs. It supports compilers such as GCC, Clang and MSVC, and languages including C, C++, assembler, CUDA, Objective-C and Objective-C++, with support varying by compiler and language. Runtime support includes Linux, macOS and native Windows at support level A, and Windows with MSYS2 and other Unix-like platforms at level B. Direct and depend modes can avoid running the preprocessor. Remote caching is possible through adaptable storage backends, with listed helpers for HTTP, HTTPS and Redis protocols. Ccache records cache hit and miss statistics, manages cache size, supports Zstandard compression, and uses BLAKE3 and XXH3 in its hashing and corruption checks. It works with Make, CMake, Ninja and Visual Studio. It is free software under the GNU GPL version 3 or later. Its scope has limits: multi-file compilation, linking and compilations with unsupported flags fall back to the real compiler. The project also cautions that cache misses add overhead and recommends measuring typical workloads.