For people familiar with Oracle, 11g has caching built-in called result cache. it's transparent and works well.We saw a 400-800+% increase in performance in our

For people familiar with Oracle, 11g has caching built-in called result cache. it's transparent and works well.We saw a 400-800+% increase in performance in our application by just turning this feature on, without any change in our application.Also note that you can still use memcached on top of result cache for even better performance/scalability.