Elastic Data and the Cloud
(Also see video blog) Today we announced a very exciting relationship with Heroku: Heroku’s Memcached Add-On is powered by NorthScale Memcached Server and NorthScale is operating the add-on service on...
View ArticleSimply Transformational
It’s great to be posting my first blog as NorthScale’s new chief executive. This is a unique company with a unique opportunity to drive the incredible transformation taking place in the data management...
View ArticleNorthScale Selected to Present at GigaOM's LaunchPad
We just got word from GigaOM that they’ve chosen NorthScale as one of 11 companies to present at this year’s LaunchPad (during the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco). We are excited to take...
View ArticleScaling memcached with vbuckets
For years, people have used memcached to scale large sites. Originally, there was a simple modulo selection hash algorithm that was used. It still is used quite a bit actually and it’s quite easy to...
View ArticleMembase Server – We’re Making Great Progress
It seems like just yesterday we posted the bits for Beta 1 for Membase Server, but in fact it was over a month ago and since then we’ve demo’d Membase at a number of events and have had literally...
View ArticleMemcached security
Memcached security is a hot topic since the sensepost guys released go-derper at blackhat. The presentation was pretty good and informative, but it seems like the hype around it has left a bunch of...
View ArticleMembase Server Beta 4 is here, with memcached buckets!
We NorthScalers have been hard at work and are proud to release Membase Server Beta 4, our final Beta release ahead of our general availability release. Go and grab it here! In addition to support for...
View ArticleWriting Your Own Storage Engine for Memcached
I am working full time on membase, which utilize the "engine interface" we're adding to Memcached. Being the one who designed the API and wrote the documentation, I can say that we do need more (and...
View ArticleWriting your own storage engine for Memcached, part 2
In the previous blog post I described the engine initialization and destruction. This blog post will cover the memory allocation model in the engine interface.read more
View ArticleWriting your own storage engine for Memcached, part 3
Right now we've got an engine capable of running get and set load, but it is doing synchrounus filesystem IO. We can't serve our client faster than we can read the item from disk, but we might serve...
View ArticleMembase for Dummies: Creating a bucket within Membase
Welcome back! This is the third installment of the "Membase for Dummies" video blog series. The other entries in the series are:read more
View Articlelibmembase – a C interface to Membase
Membase is "on the wire" compatible with any memcached server if you connect to the standard memcached port (registered by myself back in 2009), so that you should should be able to access membase...
View ArticleMaintaining a Set in Memcached
[This post also appears on Dustin's github blog].read more
View ArticleCouchbase Server 2.0 Tour and Demo
It’s been a busy few weeks since CouchConf San Francisco, where we announced and demo’d the developer preview of Couchbase Server 2.0, which integrates Apache CouchDB, Membase and Memcached into a...
View ArticleNoSQL for the enterprise
Following my talk at Jazoon (which I covered in my earlier blog), I had a whirlwind trip to five Java User Groups (JUGs) in Europe and the Pacific Northwest. I would like to thank Gerd Cestan and the...
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