Cassandra can be used as an alternative to Memcache for caching data from a database in order to improve performance. Cassandra offers advantages over Memcache like persistence of data, horizontal scaling, and simpler management as a single database tier rather than separate Memcache and database servers. While Memcache is faster for in-memory operations, Cassandra can serve data both from memory using caching as well as from disk, and offers different configuration options for balancing performance, consistency and fault tolerance.

1. Cassandra as Memcache Edward Capriolo Media6Degrees.com

2. What we learned in Operating Systems CPU (and registers) - Super FAST!

3. Main Memory - Fast

4. Hard Disks - Slow

5. What has changed since my first computer 100 MHZ

6. 8 MB RAM

7. 1 GB Disk

8. 14.4kbps Modem

9. 686 Windowz 3.11

10. Packard Bell Multiple Cores

11. @ 4GHZ

12. 2GB RAM

13. 2TB Disk

14. 1/10Gb Ethernet

15. 64 bit FC 14

16. Sadly no more Packard bell

17. The Present Situation Computers are not and never will be fast or big enough

18. Until they take over and then they will be too fast and too big

19. Traditional two tier Web Application User facing tier Usually Apache|Tomcat|...

20. Speaks some CGI alternative php|jsp|cfm|...

21. Logging

22. Display Back end Usually an RDBMS

23. Stores and indexes data