On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:02 -0400, Sean Davis wrote: > As an aside, are there rules of thumb about what cache works best in various > situations?
Cache::FastMmap and BerkeleyDB are the fastest by far, but they are local to one machine. Cache::Memcached or a simple key/value table in a MySQL server are second fastest, and can be shared between machines. After that, everything else is a lot slower. Some stats are available here: http://cpan.robm.fastmail.fm/cache_perf.html > Are RDBMS's, if accessible, generally a good solution? For caching? MySQL is surprisingly fast when handling primary key requests against a simple table. It's faster than Cache::Cache and most of the other caching modules. - Perrin
