Velocity: A Distributed In-Memory Cache from Microsoft. I’d been wondering what Microsoft ecosystem developers were using in the absence of memcached. Is Velocity the first Windows platform implementation of this idea?
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I just saw NMemcached in my feed reader a few clicks before this one. An odd coincidence for sure.
Memcached runs just fine on Windows. It's typical of MS to duplicate that effort and fragment the space, instead of working with the community to ensure that Memcached meets their needs.
Avi Flax - 6th June 2008 23:57 - #
This is exactly what I needed, four years ago when I worked in a semi-.NET shop. My "time between forehead-slappingly obvious idea and MS implementing it" clock is now properly level set.
Adam Keys - 7th June 2008 02:08 - #
There's also the Cacheman project that Popfly uses
http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005234.h tml
Sriram Krishnan - 7th June 2008 09:43 - #
ScaleOut Software also has been delivering fully featured, scalable, highly available distributed caching for .NET (including ASP.NET sessions) since January, 2005. The key features that Microsoft has listed for release in CTP2 and V1 (and others which will not be available in V1) are available today in ScaleOut StateServer. SOSS is also self-configuring and self-healing as a fully peer-to-peer architecture. Please see our Web site's press release (http://www.scaleoutsoftware.com) for our response to the Velocity announcement.
Bill Bain - 9th June 2008 18:32 - #
memcached doesn't run "just fine" on Windows. It runs pretty well and is definitely workable. However, it has major issues in multicore systems. In other words, current hardware.
In case you are wondering, the primary issue is that memcached will eat 25% of the cpu on a quad core for some reason after it fills up with dats.
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