Author does not know the difference between a caching layer, a transactional RDBMS, and distributed non-structured data store. The author was not referring to

Author does not know the difference between a caching layer, a transactional RDBMS, and distributed non-structured data store. The author was not referring to using memcached to store the results of a query, but rather the new memcached API in MySQL 5.6. With this API, you can access data in InnoDB just like you do with memcached (key/value get/put/update), while at the same time retaining SQL query flexibility. 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...