May be you are better off using redis which provides some in memory pre built data structures like lists and sets.
thanks! rohitk On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Jorge <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to use memcached as a fast cache for a hospital order > database. > > Each order has a location (5 possible values), procedure (about 100 > possible values), > and patient status (3 different values). > > So, my thinking was for each order, create a key as follows: > > (location code)_(procedure code)_(status code) > > and the value would be a list of all orders matching a given code. > > So, doing a query on a given location, procedure and status will just > entail reading the value from the key. > > My question is: what is the best way of modifying the value, as an in- > memory list. > > Can this be done on the memcached server, or do I need the client to > pull the value out, > modify it, and put it back in? > > Thanks! > >
