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I want to store data with every request (what user viewed what page of my site).
With each request I will put the data (~100 bytes) in the memcache.
Every 5 seconds I will persist that data from the memcache to the datastore.
How rare would data loss be in this scenario?
You basically can’t trust memcache to keep your data at all. It’s just a cache, after all, and can choose to evict data whenever it feels it is nessecary.
Having said that, in your particular scenario, the worst that will happen is you will lose 5 seconds worth of data. I don’t think that’s a big deal if you’re just storing “pageview” data. Besides, unless the cache is running out of memory, there’s really no need for it to evict data and so it’s probably going to be fairly rare.