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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Caching crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates to store the results of previous computations in order to reuse the results.” Below are the 6 crates in it among the 300 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, yoke leads Caching with 2,599,767 real downloads a day (established and steady). 0 of the 6 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 4.5% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
6 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| yokeEstablished | 2,599,767 | 104 | 2d | -3% | 696M | |
| zerovec-derivePulled in | 2,561,390 | 6 | 2d | +6% | 678M | |
| zerovecPulled in | 2,516,803 | 60 | 2d | +5% | 684M | |
| zerofromPulled in | 2,490,667 | 27 | 5mo | +0% | 67M | |
| yoke-derivePulled in | 2,432,865 | 14 | 24d | +6% | 687M | |
| zerofrom-derivePulled in | 2,353,727 | 3 | 39d | +6% | 662M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io