I am trying to understand what would be the need to go with a solution like memcached. It may seem like a silly question – but what does it bring to the table if all I need is to cache objects? Won’t a simple hashmap do ?
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I am trying to understand what would be the need to go with a solution like memcached. It may seem like a silly question – but what does it bring to the table if all I need is to cache objects? Won’t a simple hashmap do ?
Quoting from the memcache web site, memcache is…
A key word here is distributed. In general, quoting from the memcache site again,
I would highly recommend reading the detailed description of memcache.