Thanks, rhohitk. I found out about redis after some further investigation; looks perfect for this problem.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Rohit Karlupia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! >> > >
