Short answer, no.
Basically you're describing tags. It's been an oft discussed topic but there
are lots of issues related to implementing it without losing a lot of
performance.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Advt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi there guys,
>
> This was probably asked before but I couldn't find it on the list, so
> I'll just go ahead and ask.
> Is there a way to have more than one key assigned to a single object ?
>
> In order to have several ways of pointing to a single object, but only
> storing one copy of the object on the memory. I understand that this
> could also mess up a lot of things, including the hashes for object
> distribution between several servers, since the key is used to
> determine in which memcached an object resides.
>
> One example of this would be, for example, let's say we have objects
> that might have more than one "primary key" that is used to identify
> it, for whatever reason. For example, a system that catalogs books,
> where we have our internal "book_id", but where we also might want to
> fetch books by their ISBN ("book_isbn") or by the unique identifier
> that Amazon uses for this book ("book_amazon_id"). So, it would be
> nice to be able to apply three keys to the same object (if we ignore
> the problems that might bring in environments with lots of servers).
>
> Any thoughts on that ?
>
> []'s
> D
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