What you've described it's MySQL query cache. MySQL memcached is a memcached deamon that uses InnoDB storage instead of in-memory storage. The caching is done

What you've described it's MySQL query cache. MySQL memcached is a memcached deamon that uses InnoDB storage instead of in-memory storage. The caching is done by InnoDB itself. (and actually it's possible to enable the optional in-memory storage too) http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached.html