There has been a significant increase in interest in the Memcached, the open source distributed memory object-caching system, in recent months, as a number of vendors look to exploit its popularity in Web 2.0 and social networking environments.
Like Hadoop, which has become the focus of a number of commercial plays, it would appear that the time is right for commercialization of Memcached. But what is it, here did it come from, and what are the chances for vendors to rake in serious cash? Here are the details.
What is it?
Pronounced mem-cash-dee, Memcached was originally created by
Danga Interactive (the developer of LiveJournal,
which was acquired by Six Apart in 2005) to speed up the
performance of dynamic Web applications by alleviating database
load. Memcached has become an industry standard for improving the
performance of dynamic websites.
The code is available from the …
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