This presentation was presented at MinneBar on May 10, 2008.

1. Memcached MySQL
Sitting in a Tree
Chris Barber
http://www.cb1inc.com

2. What is memcached?
A high performance, distributed
memory object caching system

3. The Server
● Big hash table
● Slab allocator
● Servers are isolated
● No redundancy
● No failover
● No security
● No namespaces
● Cross-platform (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OSX)

4. The Client
● C/C++
● PHP
● Simple protocol
● Perl ● Text based
● Python ● Handles hashing
● Ruby – Prepend namespace
● Java to key
● MySQL ● Serialize objects
● PostgreSQL ● Compress objects
● Lua
● C#
● more...