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Do you therefore see LightCloud as a possible alternative/complement to memcached? Certainly buying 500 GB of disk space is cheaper than buying 500 GB of RAM.
by henning 18y ago
Do you therefore see LightCloud as a possible alternative/complement to memcached? Certainly buying 500 GB of disk space is cheaper than buying 500 GB of RAM.
- amix 18y agoAt Plurk.com we use both LightCloud and memcached. They complement each other. I.e. memcached is used for caching stuff - to reduce the load to MySQL. LightCloud is used to store persistent data - such as how many times a plurk has been read. You could also store this in MySQL, but generally, storing key-value data is not the force of a relational database such as MySQL and LightCloud (and other key-value databases) are optimized for this kind of storage.