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		swah on Aug 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MySQL now includes memcached, and a plugin that al... Isn't this MySQL memcached thing just a memcached in front of MySQL where the 'key' is the expanded SELECT statement?

nnk on Aug 4, 2012 [–]

What you've described it's MySQL query cache.

MySQL memcached is a memcached deamon that uses InnoDB storage instead of in-memory storage. The caching is done by InnoDB itself.

(and actually it's possible to enable the optional in-memory storage too)

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached.html

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