One of the more exciting new features in MySQL 5.6 is the InnoDB to Memcached interface. Basically memcached runs as a daemon plugin and can bypass the SQL optimizer and parser for NoSQL access.
The first step is to download the new MySQL 5.6 with the InnoDB-Memcache preview. Sorry, Linux only at this time. And install memcached.
Second, run the provided configuration script mysql> < scripts/innodb_memcached_config.sql. This will do a lot of the work to get things running out of the box and one of the links below details what is happening behind the scenes when you run the script. Third, load the plugin mysql> install plugin daemon_memcached soname “libmemcached.so”;. Forth, to make sure we can see recently inserted data, you will need to set the transaction level mysql> set
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