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morgo on July 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using MySQL as a NoSQL - A story for exceeding 750...

What's interesting about this article now, is the feature is (more or less) going mainline in MySQL 5.6, except the API will be the standard memcached protocol and not the handler socket API in the linked article.

See: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/nosql-to-mysql-...

jswinghammer on July 25, 2011 [–]

I'm not surprised they went with memcached since PHP and most other languages have the client code written.

morgo on July 25, 2011 | [–]

Yes, I agree 100%.

There is a downside however. memcached is very much for hash-structures (point lookups only). InnoDB is a B+tree, so it can do ranged reads as well.

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