Gear6, a provider of enhanced Memcached solutions, has announced enhancements to the Memcached distributed memory caching system to scale both SQL and NoSQL applications.
Gear6, a provider of enhanced Memcached solutions, has announced
enhancements to the Memcached distributed memory caching system to scale both
SQL and NoSQL applications.
On April 13, Gear6
announced a fully persistent Memcached distribution that provides native
querying and enterprise-class operations via integration with Redis.
In an interview with eWEEK, Joaquin Ruiz, executive vice president of
products at Gear6, said this announcement means that companies have the best of
both worlds because with Gear6 they can accelerate structured/MySQL data sets
in Gear6 Memcached and have the ability to query and filter objects at memory
speeds; and deploy NoSQL architectures for operating on unstructured data
sets (strings, lists and sets) in memory and have data persistence without
the use a full-blown relational database management system (RBDMS).
"In today's era of Big Data, companies need to have acceleration,
persistence and operations capabilities," Ruiz said in a statement. "Now in a
single offering-Gear6 Web Cache-they have all three, and it supports more
complex data structures with MySQL and NoSQL applications. With these new
capabilities, Gear6 continues to push the envelope in advancing today's
scale-out Web architectures."
Key value (KV) store technology has evolved beyond the store/retrieval level
to the ops level, Ruiz said. Web 2.0 architectures not only require memory
on-boarding/caching to reduce latency and persistence to save unstructured data
sets, but also need in-memory data manipulation to provide meaningful access to
the growing amount of unstructured/non-relational data sets, which, according
to market research firm IDC, is growing
three times faster than relational or structured data.
Over the last year, Gear6 has gained dozens of Web 2.0 customers by
enhancing Memcached KV store technology with replication, persistence, elastic
sizing, flash memory support and advanced cache management. With today's
release, Gear6 extends the KV capability of Gear6 products to include native
regex queries for Memcached and will soon include advanced data operations via
Redis integration. Sponsored by VMware, Redis is one the most prominent
open-source KV stores to have emerged in the last year. It has been proven in
the field in deployments such as Craigslist and The Guardian, Ruiz said.
"A lot of the top fast-growing Websites are customers of ours," he
said.
Gear6 Memcached supports the following key features:
- Advanced Memcached Query: In addition to the standard key queries,
Gear6 Memcached can now execute parallel queries on regex matches against keys
and values.
- Redis Integration and Support: A leading data structure server, Redis
is used in conjunction with Memcached to build, develop and deploy Dynamic Data
Services.
- Dynamic Services: Introduced in February, this feature is perfect for
the dynamic nature of cloud computing services. It enables users to elastically
grow and shrink an active Memcached pool without losing data.
- Persistence: Also introduced in February, persistence is now built
into Gear6 Memcached, providing the ability to snapshot, import and export
cache data. This feature is useful for cache warm-up and recovery and for
analytics.
"People are finding out it's great to have technology like
Memcached," Ruiz said. "But there's all this unstructured data that's
hard to fit into a traditional database model, so we added persistence."
Gear6's Memcached distribution is available in several deployment options:
as a software image, a prequalified HP solution or a cloud service.
In other news, Ruiz said the Gear6 Memcached distribution is now available
as a DEB package for Ubuntu and Debian as well as RPM
formats for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.
With this new delivery packaging, Gear6 further expands the deployment
options for customers that run Memcached on a shared server infrastructure. The
Gear6 Memcached distribution has been enhanced with enterprise capabilities for
replication, persistence, elastic sizing, optimized memory utilization,
advanced cache management and newly announced Memcached-native regex queries.
"Gear6 is a heavy user and fan of Ubuntu as a development environment," Ruiz
said in a statement. "Many of our customers are also heavily leveraging Ubuntu
Server Edition infrastructure for their production data center and cloud
environments where app server, caching and database server resources are
shared. In order to meet their needs, we are releasing Gear6 Memcached as a
native DEB package for the new Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Server Edition as well as previous generation Linux versions."
"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is receiving enthusiastic
ISV [independent software vendor] support
not only from enterprises but also Web and cloud deployments," said Matt Asay, chief
operating officer at Canonical, in a statement. "Scaling is the big challenge
for these environments, so having the Gear6 Memcached product certified on
Ubuntu is a great win for everyone."
Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.
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