What is CloudCache?
CloudCache provides a simple and cost effective on demand caching solution. It enables developers to store data
in an in-memory cache for super fast access while decreasing database hits and increasing performance.
Since CloudCache runs in the cloud as a service,
developers do not need to run their own servers just for caching. It
is just like memcached, but without the maintenance.
Typical Usage
Be up and running in under 5 minutes!
Step 1: Obtain your free CloudCache API access key and secret key.
Step 2: Now wherever you are about to do a database query, you first check if the data exists in CloudCache. If the object is not in CloudCache then query the database for the data and put it in CloudCache for the next time a process is looking for the data. If it is found, then your all good and it was much faster than going to the database for the data.
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Step 2: Now wherever you are about to do a database query, you first check if the data exists in CloudCache. If the object is not in CloudCache then query the database for the data and put it in CloudCache for the next time a process is looking for the data. If it is found, then your all good and it was much faster than going to the database for the data.
Ruby on Rails Example (see API docs for other languages)
def get_foo_object(id)
my_ob = cloud_cache.get(id)
if my_ob.nil?
my_ob = MyClass.find(id)
cloud_cache.put(id, my_ob)
end
return my_ob
end
Why not memcached?
Memcached is a great project and we wouldn't say a bad thing about it. However, there are many cases where setting up and managing your own infrastructure for caching doesn't make sense. Enter CloudCache.CloudCache provides an elastic caching infrastructure as a service. All you need is you API key and you can immediately begin caching objects.
For more details, see the comparison table below!
Caching Product Comparison
We're so confident in CloudCache that we'd like to show you a comparison chart.
| CloudCache | Memcached | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of Caches 1 | Unlimited | 1 |
| High Speed in Memory Caching |  |
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| Distributed Shared Cache | |
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| Cache Introspection 2 | |
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| Backup and Restore 3 | |
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| No Servers Required | |
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1. Distinct caches give you lots of flexibility such as the ability to flush out a particular
set of data and keys can be much simpler too since they don't have to be globally unique.
2. Memcached just plain doesn't have it and won't - memcache's maintainers are opposed to the concept. Being able to list the keys in the cache leads to many features that memcache doesn't have such as backup, debugging, cloning, etc.
3. With cache introspection, dumping the contents of your cache is easy.
2. Memcached just plain doesn't have it and won't - memcache's maintainers are opposed to the concept. Being able to list the keys in the cache leads to many features that memcache doesn't have such as backup, debugging, cloning, etc.
3. With cache introspection, dumping the contents of your cache is easy.
Features
- Elastic, Secure, Reliable
- Fast! - Latency: 1.5 ms
- Multi-Get
- Stats - Hits/Misses/Usage
- Each customer can have 1 or 1000 caches
- AJAX or XML output
- Located at each data center for optimal latency
- Increment/decrement
- Configurable time-to-live for automatic deletion
Pricing
$0.05 per MB per Month- Free 5 MB cache until March. 1, 2010!
- No contracts, no setup fees
- Completely elastic - use a little or a lot
- Billing is monthly, cancel at anytime