November 18, 2010  1:37 AM

Redis, NoSQL with extensive features – Part I

Posted by: Sasirekha R
cache, Key/Value Pair, memcached, NoSQL, Redis, VMWare

Redis, NoSQL with extensive features - Part I

Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is an open source, networked, in-memory, persistent, journaled, key-value data store. It is similar to memcached, but goes beyond storing simple...

October 8, 2010  11:41 AM

Using Memcached for speeding up websites and reducing database load

Posted by: Sasirekha R
cache, Key/Value Pair, memcached, NoSQL, Speeding up web

Using Memcached for speeding up web sites and reducing database load Memcached is a open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system (not a database like MemcacheDB) intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. It...

October 4, 2010  5:41 AM

Key-value Pair (KVP) – the backbone of NoSQL

Posted by: Sasirekha R
Key/Value Pair, KVP, memcached, NoSQL, RDBMS, Redis, set

Key-value Pair (KVP) - the backbone of NoSQL

Most NOSQL databases- BigTable, Hadoop, CouchDB, SimpleDB, memcached, Redis - use key-value pair (KVP) concept. A key-value pair (KVP) is a set of two linked data items: 1. a key (say account number or...