This is somewhat off topic, since these are all private forks of memcached. Asking for public opinion on a public open source list about a vendor product isn't likely to yield great results for you anyway. I'm sure you can contact folks off-list.
-Dormando On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Dan Simoes wrote: > > 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 >
