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Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide

You're reading from  Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197344
Pages 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Amazon SimpleDB Developer Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Getting to Know SimpleDB 2. Getting Started with SimpleDB 3. SimpleDB versus RDBMS 4. The SimpleDB Data Model 5. Data Types 6. Querying 7. Storing Data on S3 8. Tuning and Usage Costs 9. Caching 10. Parallel Processing

Memcached


The most popular solution used for caching these days is called memcached. It is an open source project originally developed by Danga Interactive and used for their LiveJournal website. Since then, it has been used all over the world to improve the performance and scalability characteristics of applications and web applications. Some of the most heavily used applications on the Internet leverage memcached, such as these:

  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Digg

  • LiveJournal

  • Flickr

  • Youtube

  • Wordpress

  • CraigsList

Memcached consists of two core components, a memcached server and a memcached client. The clients are available in various languages allowing you to use memcached from Ruby, Java, Python, PHP, C#, C++, and many other programming languages.

Note

Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

The latest list of client libraries for memcached can be found at http://code...

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