This is just to give a high level overview of using Memcache as a NoSQL solution and keep the MySQL & InnoDB database and data in tact.
While this blog is not the first on this topic, I hope it ties a few things together for some people.
Good reads and references are here:
https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/get_started_with_innodb_memcached
http://schlueters.de/blog/archives/152-Not-only-SQL-memcache-and-MySQL-5.6.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached-setup.html
https://blogs.oracle.com/jsmyth/entry/nosql_with_mysql_s_memcached
http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html
https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/nosql_to_innodb_with_memcached
https://blogs.oracle.com/MySQL/entry/mysql_5_6_is_a
https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/get_started_with_innodb_memcached
http://planet.mysql.com/entry/?id=32830
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-mysql-5.6.html#nosql
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached-internals.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached-troubleshoot.html
# php --version
PHP 5.4.14 (cli) (built: Apr 27 2013 14:22:04)
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies
Otherwise my php install also has this....
more /etc/php.d/memcache.ini
; ----- Options to use the memcache session handler
; Use memcache as a session handler
session.save_handler=memcache
; Defines a comma separated of server urls to use for session storage
session.save_path="tcp://localhost:11211"
First activate the plugin...
mysql> install plugin daemon_memcached soname "libmemcached.so";
Create a database so we do not just use the standard test db and demo_test used in all other examples. Just to show it is not locked to just that.
CREATE DATABASE nosql_mysql_innodb_memcache;
use nosql_mysql_innodb_memcache;
CREATE TABLE nosql_mysql (
`demo_key` VARCHAR(32),
`demo_value` VARCHAR(1024),
`demo_flag` INT,
`demo_cas` BIGINT UNSIGNED,
`demo_expire` INT,
primary key(demo_key)
)
ENGINE = INNODB;
use innodb_memcache;
INSERT INTO containers VALUES ('DEMO','nosql_mysql_innodb_memcache','nosql_mysql','demo_key','demo_value','demo_flag','demo_cas','demo_expire','PRIMARY');
select * from containers\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
name: DEMO
db_schema: nosql_mysql_innodb_memcache
db_table: nosql_mysql
key_columns: demo_key
value_columns: demo_value
flags: demo_flag
cas_column: demo_cas
expire_time_column: demo_expire
unique_idx_name_on_key: PRIMARY
OK now lets just have some data in this table to prove that it runs like normal MySQL.
mysql>use nosql_mysql_innodb_memcache;
mysql> insert into nosql_mysql VALUES ('key1','demo data','1',1,1);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec)
select * from nosql_mysql \G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
demo_key: key1
demo_value: demo data
demo_flag: 1
demo_cas: 1
demo_expire: 1
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
So let us see what we can do with PHP now...
PHP CODE :
$memcache->connect('localhost', 11211) or die ("Could not connect");
$version = $memcache->getVersion();
echo "Server's version: ".$version."<br/>\n";
$memcache->set('key3', 'FROM PHP') or die ("Failed to save data at the server");
echo "Data from the cache:<br/>\n";
echo $memcache->get('key3');
?>
PHP OUTPUT :
Server's version: 5.6.10
Data from the cache:
FROM PHP
Just for grins we can do the typical example we see and use telnet as well.
telnet 127.0.0.1 11211
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
set key2 1 0 11
Hello World
STORED
get key2
VALUE key2 1 11
Hello World
END
get key3
VALUE key3 0 8
FROM PHP
END
set session TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL read uncommitted;
SELECT @@GLOBAL.tx_isolation, @@tx_isolation \G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
@@GLOBAL.tx_isolation: REPEATABLE-READ
@@tx_isolation: READ-UNCOMMITTED
> select * from nosql_mysql\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
demo_key: key1
demo_value: demo data
demo_flag: 1
demo_cas: 1
demo_expire: 1
*************************** 2. row ***************************
demo_key: key2
demo_value: Hello World
demo_flag: 1
demo_cas: 2
demo_expire: 0
*************************** 3. row ***************************
demo_key: key3
demo_value: FROM PHP
demo_flag: 0
demo_cas: 2
demo_expire: 0
So with PHP and using MySQL InnoDB memcache we can see that we are able to address code directly and easily.
Of course others have their own opinions (http://blog.couchbase.com/why-mysql-56-no-real-threat-nosql) but I think this is just the start of how we will be able to use NoSQL with MySQL.
