| 66 | | By far the fastest, most efficient type of cache available to Django, Memcached |
| 67 | | is an entirely memory-based cache framework originally developed to handle high |
| 68 | | loads at LiveJournal.com and subsequently open-sourced by Danga Interactive. |
| 69 | | It's used by sites such as Facebook and Wikipedia to reduce database access and |
| 70 | | dramatically increase site performance. |
| 71 | | |
| 72 | | Memcached is available for free at http://memcached.org/. It runs as a |
| 73 | | daemon and is allotted a specified amount of RAM. All it does is provide a |
| 74 | | fast interface for adding, retrieving and deleting arbitrary data in the cache. |
| 75 | | All data is stored directly in memory, so there's no overhead of database or |
| 76 | | filesystem usage. |
| | 66 | By far the fastest, most efficient type of cache available to Django, |
| | 67 | Memcached__ is an entirely memory-based cache framework originally developed to |
| | 68 | handle high loads at LiveJournal.com and subsequently open-sourced by Danga |
| | 69 | Interactive. It is used by sites such as Facebook and Wikipedia to reduce |
| | 70 | database access and dramatically increase site performance. |
| | 71 | |
| | 72 | __ http://memcached.org/ |
| | 73 | |
| | 74 | Memcached runs as a daemon and is allotted a specified amount of RAM. All it does is |
| | 75 | provide a fast interface for adding, retrieving and deleting arbitrary data in |
| | 76 | the cache. All data is stored directly in memory, so there's no overhead of |
| | 77 | database or filesystem usage. |