I'm curious to read more about Membase, their current homepage is rather sparse and lacking in content, but one of the things that really intrigues me about Mem

I'm curious to read more about Membase, their current homepage is rather sparse and lacking in content, but one of the things that really intrigues me about Membase is how they are adding a persistence layer on top of Memcached that gradually moves less used data down the stack to progressively slower and more expansive storage hardware, starting from ram, going to ssds, then down to hard drives. One thing that they make a big deal about is ease of use in installing, saying: "Start storing data in five minutes, or less. Membase is a single-package install. It is easy to get, install, configure and begin using. We consider it a failure if it takes more than five minutes to get up and running." While I appreciate ease of use and their dedication to that, if I'm looking for something to handle 500,000+ requests per second, then getting it up and running initially within 5 minutes is not something I concerned with. But that's just a nit pick. I'm intrigued to hear more, and I like that they are building this on top of Memcached while utilizing the existing client API.