My benchmarks with Riak against Redis showed Riak is fast, but it's never going to be as fast for caching as an in-memory only store that doesn't have to do coordination. That said if your data set is larger than RAM, Riak will likely be faster as it will scale to handle that better.
-J On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mike Stoddart <sto...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking of using memcached for cheap, fast storage to share > between servers. I need to store stuff like user preferences, > permissions, session etc. But memcached (I think) requires you to > define which servers you want to use for storage. Ideally I don't > care. I want my core/auth server to write preferences and permissions > to the cache and let tornado on other servers pull those keys out. I > think Riak could perform this in theory, but is Riak fast enough? > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
