Scalable Performance

Easily, reliably and smoothly scale your complex web site.Gear6 Web Cache lets you fully leverage Memcached, and enables efficient website scaling through a number of innovative features.

Clustering

High availability is built into Gear6 Web Cache. It is based on powerful cluster architecture with multiple failover configuration possibilities. It can be configured for continuous service availability, meaning that the service, but not the cache data, is maintained in the event of a cache failure. It can also be configured for continuous data availability, meaning that a failed cache instance is immediately replaced with another instance that already contains the same cache data, so that normal operations continue throughout the failure incident. The Gear6 Web Cache supports up to 32 nodes per cluster.

High Density Memory Architecture

Gear6 Web Cache introduces a substantial advantage in Memcached density by allowing high-speed DRAM and economical flash memory to be used in hybrid configurations. Advanced software memory management enables this hybrid operation, providing DRAM or near-DRAM performance for prices far below those of an all-DRAM solution, and without latency related to the use of flash memory. The very high density of flash memory also means that 5-10 times as much Memcached memory can be deployed per “U” of rack space, reducing power consumption and cooling requirements as well as the cost and time involved in provisioning and managing hardware.

Management and Reporting Features

Reliably and smoothly scaling a web site is nearly impossible without good information. Standard Memcached software provides almost no visibility into the caching tier of your architecture. This means you have little decision data at your fingertips when there are problems, or when you’re considering new investments in Memcached to improve performance or to scale your site.Gear6 Web Cache provides rich and easy-to-use Memcached management and reporting capabilities. Its management interface allows you to view aggregated service-level statistics, or to drill down at will to the level of individual instances or keys.