Answering my own question: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-mysql-5.6.html#nosql http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-ne

Answering my own question: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-mysql-5.6.html#nosql http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-my... This appears to be a way to access InnoDB storage as a memcached-type key-value store using the memcached API. I didn't get that from the article.