I've used an earlier version of this - and unless things have changed since Spring 2008 - this isn't usable with a high volume of traffic: I benchmarked it by h

I've used an earlier version of this - and unless things have changed since Spring 2008 - this isn't usable with a high volume of traffic: I benchmarked it by having multiple fork()'d processes load data from a "partitioned" MySQL database - at one point, memcachedb just gave up and quit reading from the UNIX domain socket. A possible alternative is Tokyo Cabinet: Tokyo Cabinet is a DBM implementation (BDB - on which memcachedb is based - is another) that memory maps the entire hash bucket. Tokyo Cabinet also has an RPC layer built on top of it which specifically has a memcached compatibility mode. I haven't yet tried, but I'd be interested to see what results people have with it: http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/index.html http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/index.html http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/tyrantdoc/ http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/tyrantdoc/