Comments on: Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL?

By: NorthScale, a Memcached-focused Startup Launches – GigaOM

NorthScale, a Memcached-focused Startup Launches – GigaOM — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:46:43 +0000

[...] is no doubt that NorthScale is coming to the market at the right time. There is a lot of interest in data stores and alternative technologies such as Cassandra and Memcached. These technologies are viewed as the wave of the future. It also helps that the company has most [...]

By: Needed: Infrastructure to Make the Web Personal – GigaOM

Needed: Infrastructure to Make the Web Personal – GigaOM — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:01:37 +0000

[...] We need to develop new data processing architectures — ones that go beyond technologies like memcached, MapReduce, NoSQL, [...]

By: Gear6 Brings Memcached to Amazon’s Cloud – GigaOM

Gear6 Brings Memcached to Amazon’s Cloud – GigaOM — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:01:40 +0000

[...] Memcached is the underpinning of large sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Digg, and also the target of several VC-backed startups’ efforts including Schooner and NorthScale. By offering its memcached products across a variety of platforms, Gear6 is adapting to the changes in IT demand wrought by its startup customers that have widely adopting cloud computing, as well as other customers that still prefer to run software in-house. [...]

By: Some links about rdbms vs distributed key stores | Tof://

Some links about rdbms vs distributed key stores | Tof:// — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:48:19 +0000

[...] Very interesting paper from GigaOm : Is memcached a good or bad sign for MySQL ? http://gigaom.com/2009/05/17/memcached-and-an-ailing-mysql/ [...]

By: Facebook Officially Expands Album Limits From 60 To 200

Facebook Officially Expands Album Limits From 60 To 200 — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:27:40 +0000

[...] a database is to not rely on the database. That’s where Memcached comes in. As Gary Orenstein wrote on GiagOm earlier this week, Memcached presents a sort of philosophical aspect to the Memcached/MySQL [...]

By: Memcached: A Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? | google android os blog

Memcached: A Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? | google android os blog — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:51:21 +0000

[...] databases, through caching, and there was a lot of interest in it at the recent MySQL Conference. In this post on GigaOm, Gary Orenstein analyzes the newfound interest in memcached, and ponders whether it’s good or [...]

By: mustaq

mustaq — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:40:21 +0000

Hey

i am long time developer , i worked long time around data base atmosphere both oracle and mysql

oracle give more power and lot’s more feature than mysql ,last but not least few states in US implemented to maintain there county records it’s just a start

By: Mark Hambleton

Mark Hambleton — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:14:19 +0000

I also ran across an announcement by a company called Virident (discussed on Planet MySQL on 4/20/09)http://planet.mysql.com/entry/?id=18614. Seems they have a solution for MySQL as well. I think the trend makes sense. Optimized servers for MySQL makes sense.

By: James Richards

James Richards — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:56:45 +0000

Gary Orenstein it appears from this LinkedIn profile is a former VP at Gear6, the first company referenced in this blog. http://tinyurl.com/p2zlhl

While there is some merit in the article, I think Gary needs to be a little more honest and reference the fact that he is a former executive at one of the companies he referenced. In fact, if he still has equity, there is a serious problem. Gear6 has been guilty of many things lately – also stealing the “memcached” twitter feed from the Open Source community.

I think we all deserve a little more honesty.

By: netik

netik — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:18:59 +0000

There’s a real lesson here, and that is that if time permits, build your site as if it will have to scale to a large number of users. Start the scaling process early so that you don’t have to flail later when the site becomes popular.

The time investment (with memcache) required to build in the scalability is marginal, and the rewards are huge.

By: netik

netik — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:18:58 +0000

The time investment (with memcache) required to build in the scalability is marginal, and the rewards are huge.

By: swag

swag — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:52:22 +0000

Your analysis is a little flawed here in that you are presuming that a significant number of Web-based applications need to scale to hundreds of simultaneous users. That’s still the great exception rather than the rule.

Sure, the biggest and most popular apps get all the press attention. But by no means is “the Facebook problem” typical for most Web apps.

By: Maddy

Maddy — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:43:38 +0000

MySQL performance is just fine, when the database is consistent and solid.

By: Luke Fisher

Luke Fisher — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:48:37 +0000

I agree MySQL is stready as a rock when database speed and server work just fine.

By: Jack Wong

Jack Wong — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:34:22 +0000

I am afraid that the technical naivete of this article is startling given that it appears on GigaOm.

Memcached is to MySQL what a website might be to a blog authoring tool. You edit in one and publish from the other. Each is optimized for a different problem, and yet they are used together.

By: Gary Orenstein

Gary Orenstein — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:55:18 +0000

Netik, Thanks for accurately outlining some of the technical details. While I agree that memcached/mysql (or caching/relational db) problems and solutions might be othogonal from a technical standpoint, the commonality of the deployments lead me to see a closer relationship.