Many of you have already heard about NoSQL databases and one of the the most used tool is Memcached, where you add a cache layer between the application and database. Since MySQL version 5.6, a new plugin is available to do the integration between MySQL and Memcached. On this article, we will learn how to install it on linux, and some basic configurations of it.
Pre-requirements:
Install libevent
Installation:
To install memcached support we will need to create a few tables
responsible for MySQL and memcached integration. MySQL already
includes the file which creates those tables
(innodb_memcached_config.sql), you can find this file in a sub
folder of your basedir. To discover where is your basedir, run
the bellow command:
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'basedir'; +---------------+-------+ | Variable_name | Value | +---------------+-------+ | basedir | /usr | …[Read more]