A Streaming Protocol for Memcached

Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for Live Journal but is now used by many other sites and It is thought to be one of the most effective solutions to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times that an external data source must be read. Memcached system uses a client-server architecture, it provides its standard memcached protocol to support any types of programming languages. The memcached protocol is simple and very efficient, while it doesn’t support big data objects very well. In this study, the memcached systems were firstly illustrated and then a detailed introduction was provided for the memcached protocol and then the issues of the stock protocol were specified. After that, a new streaming protocol was illustrated which was well designed for big data objects and could be easily integrated into original memcached protocols. Finally, some experiments were done to evaluate the new streaming protocol and finally the new protocol was proved to be very efficient for big data objects storage and it explored new application fields for memcached.