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  • Other methods taking this lean mindset even further include a range of distributed key-value stores.

    Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? 2009

  • Flatter key-value data stores are used because that is a technology that can scale for web apps, but using that technology significantly constrains the applications that can be built on top of it.

    Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? 2009

  • MySQL and relational databases are not going away, nor can their functionality be replaced one for one with the key-value stores mentioned earlier.

    Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? 2009

  • This trend away from the overhead of a relational database, which stressed completeness, to the emerging distributed key-value stores that stress scale, represents a shift in designing web architectures.

    Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? 2009

  • At one extreme you have flat key-value models scaling web apps in the simple case and at the other extreme of complex relational analytics the existing relational implementations are horribly inadequate.

    Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? 2009

  • One can then tell Ugarit to "archive" a subdirectory of a filesystem into a given index, along with a set of key-value metadata describing it.

    Snell-Pym » Ugarit Roadmap 2010

  • It's a wrapper to the gdbm library, which provides file-based persistent key-value mappings.

    Snell-Pym » fold>cons 2009

  • Objects have a dictionary interface for their key-value properties, and methods appear to be verbs.

    Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » /usr/bin/playsh 2006

  • Apple's been testing this integration with beta pre-release versions of iTunes 10.5, but so far these versions have not brought over anything that falls outside of this 64 KB key-value data.

    CNET News.com 2011

  • Ben suggested that I use Windows Azure Table storage for storing my key-value pairs which I'll do in my example, but you could really use any store that is external to your application…

    Site Home Brian Swan - MSFT 2011

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