Just do pip install python-memcached and you should be good. As for installing memcached itself, it depends on the platform you are on. Windows – http://pureform.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/installing-memcache-on-windows-for-php/ OS X – brew install memcached Debian/Ubuntu – sudo apt-get install memcached On OS X/Linux, just run memcached in the command line.
I agree with most things @phihag has answered but I must clarify some things. Memcached stores data according to a key (phihag called it an id, not to be confused with database ids). Data can be of various sizes so you can store small bits (like 1 record pulled from the database) or you can … Read more
This might be a little verbose but I had to spend some time with the Rails source code to learn how the caching internals work. Writing things down aids my understanding and I figure that sharing some notes on how things work can’t hurt. Skip to the end if you’re in a hurry. Why It … Read more
To see if it is running you could also try telnetting into the port: telnet localhost 11211 If this works you will see the following (telling you that the given port is open): Connected to localhost. Escape character is ‘^]’. Now if memcached IS running you can see some basic stats by issuing the given … Read more
I spent 3 hours on this problem today. With the help of the post of demve in this topic, I found the solution. Very simple! I hope it won’t affect me later in my development. Just to it, in the .env file : CACHE_DRIVER=array SESSION_DRIVER=array QUEUE_DRIVER=array Ok, I make an UPDATE because I was faced … Read more
You can set key expiration to a date, by supplying a Unix timestamp instead of a number of days. This date can be more than 30 days in the future: Expiration times are specified in unsigned integer seconds. They can be set from 0, meaning “never expire”, to 30 days (60*60*24*30). Any time higher than … Read more
As the author of spymemcached, I’m a bit biased, but I’d say it’s mine for the following reasons: Designed from scratch to be non-blocking everywhere possible. When you ask for data, issue a set, etc… there’s one tiny concurrent queue insertion and you get a Future to block on results (with some convenience methods for … Read more
I have never tried it, but what about redis ? Its homepage says (quoting) : Redis is a key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists and sets with atomic operations to push/pop elements. In order to be … Read more
Advantages of Java memory over memcache: Java memory is faster (no network). Java memory won’t require serialization, you have Java objects available to you. Advantages of memcache over Java memory: It can be accessed by more than one application server, so your cache will be shared among all your app servers. It can be accessed … Read more
1: YES. And I strongly recommend storing PHP sessions in Memcached. Here’s why: Memcached is great for storing small chunks of data that are frequently accessed by the database and filesystem. Memcached was designed specifically for sessions. It was originally the brainchild of the lead developer of livejournal.com and later used to also cache the … Read more