I added a handlersocket/memcached api project proposal to the GSoC12 page, i would need someone else to mentor that part of the project though (maybe it should be split in two projects?)
/Marcus On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> One thing I've been thinking of is to copy the Memcache API from MySQL > >> 5.6 to Drizzle. > >> > >> Even if we are playing with json server, we don't have a > >> high-performance, key-value type of "raw" API yet. Memcache API seems > >> like the obvious choice for Drizzle? > > > > How does that API relate to handlersocket? > > Good question! > > HandlerSocket is modeled (but completely different) on the mother of > all NoSQL APIs namely NDB from MySQL Cluster. It supports things like > columns, range scans and secondary indexes. Essentially it exposes all > functionality of the storage engine API in MySQL. But it really shines > at key-value operations. > > Memcache API has the great advantage of being compatible with all the > existing and mature memcache clients out there. But of course the > memcached protocol only supports key value. Since MySQL/InnoDB is not > a key-value store, it also follows that there is no "natural" mapping > between the memcached protocol and the data in InnoDB. This introduces > admin overhead where you have to maintain a mapping from key-value to > InnoDB columns. (I don't remember what MySQL 5.6 does by default > here.) > > My subjective summary: HandlerSocket is better but choosing Memcache > API is the pragmatic choice. > > Also consider that creators of HandlerSocket are now promoting the > MySQL 5.6 solution. > > henrik > > -- > [email protected] > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > www.openlife.cc > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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