Memcached: A Good or Bad Sign for MySQL?

by Sam Dean - May. 18, 2009Comments (1)

Memcached, the open source caching software framework, has been gaining attention from web companies and investors. Gear6 has annnounced details of a new memcached-based product, and Schooner Information Technologies has a set of server appliances, one targeted to MySQL, and one to memcached. Memcached is a tool that's widely used to reduce query times when using databases, through caching, and there was a lot of interest in it at the recent MySQL Conference. In this post on GigaOm, Gary Orenstein analyzes the newfound interest in memcached, and ponders whether it's good or bad for MySQL. 

 


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I ran across an announcement by a company called Virident (discussed on Planet MySQL on 4/20/09) http://planet.mysql.com/entry/?id=18614. Seems they have a solution for MySQL as well. Optimized servers for MySQL makes sense.
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