NorthScale Memcached Server

The leading distribution of memcached

Nothing beats the simplicity and speed of memcached for alleviating database load for web applications—and that’s just what you get with NorthScale Memcached Server. Built on the latest release from the open source project—by the leaders of the open source project—NorthScale’s packaged distribution makes it even easier to get started with memcached to improve your web application performance and scalability.

  • The de facto standard for web data caching
  • Boosts web application performance
  • Reduces data management costs
  • Commercial support for Windows and Linux
  • Developed and supported by leaders of the open source project team

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NorthScale Memcached Server is the leading commercial distribution of memcached, a distributed, in-memory caching technology that is used alongside relational database technology – caching frequently used data, thereby reducing the number of database queries an application must perform. By augmenting - not replacing – relational database technology, memcached is easy to adopt and offers immediate cost, performance and scalability benefits.

NorthScale Memcached Server enhances these core capabilities with secure application multi-tenancy, dynamic scalability, and web-based management capabilities – all packaged as a fully supported, software product that is easy to set up, configure, and manage. Distributions are available for Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating environments in both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

Typically, memcached is implemented as a critical component within tiered web architectures where it is deployed on web or application servers or independently alongside a traditional database layer. This allows IT teams to easily scale out their data layer horizontally using commodity hardware. As traffic demands increase, web applications using NorthScale MCDS scale out horizontally by increasing the number of web servers and caching servers, alleviating database load and improving web application performance.

White Paper: Cache is King

Technical White Paper:
Cache is King

Builds on the Benefits of Open Source Memcached

  • Reduces your reliance on high-cost RDBMS resources that are not well suited for modern web applications
  • Easy to deploy quickly within your existing IT infrastructure
  • 100% mem-capable implementation, meaning it supports both ascii and binary memcached protocol specifications and requires no application changes for existing memcached deployments
  • Supports on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of RedHat Enterprise Linux and Windows
  • Includes the leading client library for Java and is optimized for use with a set of NorthScale recommended clients for C, .NET, PHP and Ruby

Dynamic Scalability

  • Enables you to seamlessly grow your cache by adding new server nodes through the web console
  • Symmetric server nodes can be cloned and brought online to support more dynamic virtualized environments

Secure Multi-Tenancy with Cache Buckets

  • Supports isolated cache buckets using SASL-based authentication across your caching layer to provide secure inter-and intra-application multi-tenancy

Simplified Web Management Console

  • Comprehensive visibility into cluster health with email alerting and cache analytics for both developers and operators
  • Real-time data on operations including evictions and hit ratios; you can also easily identify hot keys and optimize cache usage
  • Built on a Complete REST API that enables improved scalability and integration with your web applications

Packaged Software with World Class Support

  • Integrated setup and install combined with an intuitive graphical user interface for ease of use
  • Testing and validation of the leading client libraries for Java, .NET, C, PHP, and Ruby
  • 24/7 support backed by NorthScale’s technical team, who are leaders in the open source memcached project
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