diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 14a2b7b..f4e328a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 # cove-oc4ids
 
-### Caching
-
-In non-dev or (not DEBUG mode) the default settings make use of a local memcached server. This backend requires a local memcached server running. On debian based systems this can be installed with `sudo apt install memcached`.
-
 ## Dev installation
 
 ```bash
diff --git a/core/settings.py b/core/settings.py
index ee66c45..86d7cf1 100644
--- a/core/settings.py
+++ b/core/settings.py
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@
 if production:
     CACHES = {
         "default": {
-            "BACKEND": "django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache",
-            "LOCATION": os.getenv("MEMCACHED_URL", "127.0.0.1:11211"),
+            "BACKEND": "django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache",
+            "LOCATION": os.getenv("REDIS_URL", "redis://localhost:6379/0"),
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 127bdb0..e8c5e34 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ gunicorn[setproctitle]
 libcove
 libcoveoc4ids[perf]
 libcoveweb
-pymemcache
+redis[hiredis]
 sentry-sdk
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5c2a9df..5185cd1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ flattentool==0.26.0
     #   libcoveweb
 gunicorn[setproctitle]==23.0.0
     # via -r requirements.in
+hiredis==3.1.0
+    # via redis
 idna==3.7
     # via requests
 ijson==3.3.0
@@ -99,10 +101,10 @@ platformdirs==4.1.0
     # via requests-cache
 pycparser==2.20
     # via cffi
-pymemcache==4.0.0
-    # via -r requirements.in
 pytz==2021.1
     # via flattentool
+redis==5.2.1
+    # via -r requirements.in
 referencing==0.32.0
     # via
     #   jsonschema
diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 7a2b473..cff46fa 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ gunicorn[setproctitle]==23.0.0
     # via -r requirements.txt
 h11==0.14.0
     # via wsproto
+hiredis==3.1.0
+    # via -r requirements.txt
 idna==3.7
     # via
     #   -r requirements.txt
@@ -173,8 +175,6 @@ pycparser==2.20
     # via
     #   -r requirements.txt
     #   cffi
-pymemcache==4.0.0
-    # via -r requirements.txt
 pysocks==1.7.1
     # via urllib3
 pytest==7.3.1
@@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ pytz==2021.1
     # via
     #   -r requirements.txt
     #   flattentool
+redis==5.2.1
+    # via -r requirements.txt
 referencing==0.32.0
     # via
     #   -r requirements.txt