In general, I'm aware of three companies making products in this space: Gear6 Virident Schooner
They all share some common features such as: - combination of RAM and flash (SSD) - sold in memcached and mySQL versions - linux based - marketed as a way of reducing your space and power utiization (since you can used the SSD as storage, you can get a lot more "space" into a 1U or 2U box than you could with just RAM. I know that some have expressed strong feelings on the list and IRC about particular vendors, but I'd personally like to hear if anyone is using these products and some of the "unique" features they tout such as replication, persistence, etc. The topic comes up enough that I think a vendor-agnostic discussion would be worthwhile. We could always take it to private email if that's considered off-topic for the list. Dan On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:36 AM, RogueWarrior <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes we are looking into the device, but it is not cheap. I am hoping > that when the storage engine branch is released, that we can hook up > some SSD to a standard memcached box and see how they compare. > Schooner has a few more features, but truly they are a specialized > version of Memcached with custom hardware. > > > > On Sep 22, 9:55 am, Adam Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> A schooner is a sailboat! >> >> Having said that, no, I don't. I met with them a while back and it >> definitely seemed like some really cool technology, but not really >> what we were looking for at the time. >> >> For anybody who is interested, they build some flash memory-based >> products like this: >> >> http://www1.schoonerinfotech.com/products/memcached-appliance.html >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Michael Shadle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > It's not a Schooner, it's a sailboat! >> >> > (Sorry, I just had to) >> >> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Steve Webb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Q: Does anyone have any experience with the Schooner memcached appliance? >> >> >> - Steve Webb >> >> >> -- >> >> Steve Webb - Lead System Administrator for Pronto.com >> >> Email: [email protected] (Please send any work requests to: >> >> [email protected]) >> >> Cell: 303-564-4269, Office: 303-351-1312, YIM: scumola >> >> -- >> awl
