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

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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