How to Cache PHP Sessions in Membase
Why Membase is the next step after Memcached:
Memcache is great, but once you start running low on memory (as you cache more info) lesser-used items in the cache will be destroyed to free up more space for new items. This can result in users getting logged out. Also, if one of the servers in the pool fails or gets rebooted, all the data it was holding is lost, and then the cache must get “warmed up” again.
Membase is memcache with data persistence. The improvement of having data persistence is that if you need to bring down a server, you don’t have to worry about all that dainty, floaty data in memory that is gonna get burned. Since membase has replication built-in, you can feel free to restart a troublesome server with fear of your database getting pounded as the caches need to refill, or that a set of unlucky users will get logged out. I’ll let you read about all the many other advantages of membase here. It’s much more than I’ve mentioned here.
Original title and link: How to Cache PHP Sessions in Membase (©myNoSQL)
via: http://www.startupnextdoor.com/2011/11/how-to-cache-php-sessions-in-membase/
