Shared Cache: The Windows and .Net memcached

Hi again,

In memory databases and cache are must in any large scale system these days (you can ask Facebook architects regarding it). The Linux guys have memcached and there are many other products (with much more features of course) such as Gigaspaces XAP, Oracle Coherence and Scaleout. However, since Microsoft did not release yet the long expected Velocity product (will it ever be in production?), it seems there is a clear winner to the Windows environment: SharedCache. This product is some kind of a memcached porting to native managed .Net code and it is licensed under LGPL!.
SharedCached is already in production in several major sites including theport.com and it is fully documented. The product supports all major requirement from a caching product including:

1. Partitioning - just like sharding, every server is taking care of part of the data, and the application server are talking with every cache server (unless of course you were wise enough to shard the application servers as well).
2. Replicated Caching - keeping data in multiple instances, making sure data will always be available and lots of reads will be handled correctly.

I recommend downloading and testing this product and see if it fits your product/service needs,

Keep Performing,
Moshe Kaplan. RockeTier. The Performance Experts.