This sounds truly brilliant.
On 7/6/07, Jan Miczaika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I saw these proposed features for the Hackathon. Unfortunately I can't take in
person, wrong continent for me.
I would like to suggest a feature which would probably address these issues
well: tagging keys. Each key would have 0...n tags assigned to
it. Flushing keys could be done by asking memcached to flush all keys with a
certain tag.
The usage scenario: lets say we have a DVD. We have a number of keys related to
this dvd, maybe recommendations, comments, categorization
etc. I could tag each of these keys with the id of the DVD (dvd:1234). Then I
would tell memcached to flush all keys with the tag dvd:1234,
causing the database to recalculate all data relating to dvd 1234 on the next
access.
Zend implemented similar functionality in their new framework:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.cache.theory.html#zend.cache.tags
The wildcard deletes could be done this way, more efficiently than looping
through the whole cache to see if a regex matches. Multidimensional arrays
could be partially simulated by using tags.
I hope someone is interested ;-)
Cheers
Jan
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