Archive for September, 2007
Cool features upcoming in memcached
Memcached
is cool, KISS and powerful. After no-new-release-silence
of months, I’m always expecting some new feature from it. Here are
things I’m looking forward:
- 64 bit counter: patch available from Evan Miller
- APPEND: patch available from Filipe Laborde
- Binary wire protocol: patch and python/java client code available from Dustin Sallings
- Atomic operation: patch available from Chris Goffinet
- Mass deletion: have not seen the patch yet, but I believe it will not take too long…
- Replication? Sounds cool, but a bit complex and not so useful IMHO.
- Storage backend? Useful in certain cases, but not so necessary since we have Tugela and
NMDB
. Ofcoz the world will be more perfect if author of NMDB make a memcached-compatible interface. - Iterating keys/items? Useful or not? Certainly leads to abusing.
For all memcached lovers, we should give our thanks to Facebook, who contributes patches and hosts hackathon. 