Informative comparison of Memcached (+MemCached .Net lib) V Velocity which looks at features and performance:
Features
No question here, Velocity has it licked. Memcached offers you, errr, ‘Put’ and ‘Get’ pretty much. Velocity gives you such lovelies as:
Cache Invalidation (things in SQL changing can expire the cache)
Cache Groups (so you can specify different policies for different types of [...]
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Being able to work with distributed Cache’s to scale Excel and to enable automated used of headless excel is something that Financial institution and online Gaming companies quite often need to do. Two of the big players have recently published comprehensive blog posts on how this can be achieved.
The first is from Oracle who show [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, Uncategorized on Jun 7th, 2009
There is a nice video from the guys at Facebook no how they tweaked and added to Facebook to enable this hugely popular site to scale which you can access here.
A very nice overview and introduction to MemCached here with examples in different languages for the programmer.
A guide with code about using Memcached as singleton with [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on May 21st, 2009
Memcached now has persistent queues via 0.6 of the Gearman C server and library. The persistent queue allows background jobs to be stored via the pluggable module, so if the job server crashes or is shutdown, the queue module can repopulate the job server with any jobs that were not yet complete.
Sun scale Memcached to 500K operations [...]
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