Which Memcached tag is smallest?
memcached:1.6-alpine is the smallest of the tags we measured: 13 MB unpacked and a 5.9 MB download on amd64, against 88 MB and 32 MB for memcached:1.6, 6.6× smaller. The tag with the fewest known vulnerabilities is memcached:1.6-alpine (0, 0 critical or high).
Tags at a glance
| Image | Size (compressed, amd64) | Unpacked | Base OS | Layers | Packages | Vulnerabilities | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| memcached:1.6 | 32 MB | 88 MB | Debian 13.7 (trixie) | 6 | 82 | H 43M 63L 60? 1 | 2 days ago |
| memcached:1.6-alpine | 5.9 MB | 13 MB | Alpine Linux 3.24.3 | 6 | 20 | ✓ 0 known | 8 days ago |
Size by tag (amd64)
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Known vulnerabilities by tag
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Download size on arm64
Compressed size of the arm64 (v8) variant, for Apple Silicon, Graviton and Ampere hosts.
Sizes from the Docker Hub API, checked 2026-11-01. Unpacked size, files and packages measured from the amd64 image. Vulnerabilities from Trivy, database dated 2026-11-01. How we measure.