Web Cache and Memcached Papers
White Papers and Data Sheets
Gear6 Memcached products are protocol‐compliant solutions that scale and acceleratesweb applications, reduce memory footprint, enhance availability and implement comprehensive Memcached management features. Designed to work with all popular Memcached clients, Gear6 Memcached products integrate seamlessly into existing deployments and immediately provide scalable, high density caching solutions for your web application environments.
White Paper: Cache Tier Memory Efficiency with Gear6 Web Cache
Operators of dynamic, high-growth web sites are making extensive use of the open-source distributed cache system Memcached, in order to economically scale their web sites. By storing data in DRAM instead of in a database, response time improvements of 100x or more are typical.
But as these companies deploy ever-larger amounts of memory for use by Memcached, the memory efficiency shortcomings of Memcached become a concern.
This white paper will explain how standard Memcached manages and allocates memory, and compare it with memory management in Gear6 Web Cache, an enhanced distribution of Memcached that employs advanced technology to use memory much more efficiently.
The open-source distributed memory caching system Memcached has grown rapidly as a way for operators and developers of complex web sites to scale their sites.
Now, Gear6 offers a Memcached protocol-compliant solution called Gear6 Web Cache, which offers all the advantages of Memcached along with significant advances in scalability, cost, high availability and manageability. This white paper quantifies these advantages through a comparison of the two systems. It focuses on three of the most important cost areas related to web caching: equipment purchase and data center operational costs, cost related to failures and/or high availability, and costs related to cache tier management. Gear6 yields substantial TCO benefits in each area.
Memcached Enhanced Solutions Data Sheet
Gear6 Web Cache provides several features enhancing stock Memcached. Read this document for details on how Gear6 improves Memory Management, High Availability, Reporting and more.
