From: "Sven C. Koehler" <schween@...>
Date: 2009-04-18T02:32:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Localmemcache-0.3.0: A persistent key-value database based on	mmap()'ed shared memory

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:07:23AM +0900, Roger Pack wrote:
> > Localmemcache is a library for C and ruby that aims to provide an
> > interface similar to memcached but for accessing local data instead
> > of remote data.  It's based on mmap()'ed shared memory for maximum
> > speed. Since version 0.3.0 it supports persistence, also making it a
> > fastalternative to GDBM and Berkeley DB.
> 
> Wow that's an interesting idea.  

Thank you!

> I assume it's a ruby wrapper for a C 
> library that does the storage?

Yeah, that's the case.  It also has a C API.  My original motivation for
writing localmemcache was that I did not want to serve requests for
images in Ruby just to update a viewcounter in the database.  I wanted to
do this right in the webserver.  So with localmemcache I just can do it
very easily in a webserver module in C, but I still can access the
counters when I do more complex operations in Ruby for other requests.

Best,

Sven