On Sep 22, 11:54 am, Dan Simoes <dan.sim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In general, I'm aware of three companies making products in this space:
> Gear6
> Virident
> Schooner
>
> They all share some common features such as:
> - combination of RAM and flash (SSD)
> - sold in memcached and mySQL versions
> - linux based
> - marketed as a way of reducing your space and power utiization (since
> you can used the SSD as storage, you can get a lot more "space" into a
> 1U or 2U box than you could with just RAM.
>
> I know that some have expressed strong feelings on the list and IRC
> about particular vendors, but I'd personally like to hear if anyone
> is using these products and some of the "unique" features they tout
> such as replication, persistence, etc. The topic comes up enough that
> I think a vendor-agnostic discussion would be worthwhile. We could
> always take it to private email if that's considered off-topic for the
> list.
>
> Dan
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:36 AM, RogueWarrior <rac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes we are looking into the device, but it is not cheap. I am hoping
> > that when the storage engine branch is released, that we can hook up
> > some SSD to a standard memcached box and see how they compare.
> > Schooner has a few more features, but truly they are a specialized
> > version of Memcached with custom hardware.
>
> > On Sep 22, 9:55 am, Adam Lee <a...@fotolog.biz> wrote:
> >> A schooner is a sailboat!
>
> >> Having said that, no, I don't. I met with them a while back and it
> >> definitely seemed like some really cool technology, but not really
> >> what we were looking for at the time.
>
> >> For anybody who is interested, they build some flash memory-based
> >> products like this:
>
> >>
http://www1.schoonerinfotech.com/products/memcached-appliance.html
>
> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Michael Shadle <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > It's not a Schooner, it's a sailboat!
>
> >> > (Sorry, I just had to)
>
> >> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Steve Webb <sw...@pronto.com> wrote:
>
> >> >> Q: Does anyone have any experience with the Schooner memcached appliance?
>
> >> >> - Steve Webb
>
We use memcached a lot for our hosting customers. It's a mix of stock
memcached stuff,
with the usual kinds of hardware, and a few Gear6 setups.
We've found that the memcached gem for rails has some issues when
memcached nodes drop offline,
and are also limited to <1MB objects. Since some of our customers want
to use memcached for larger
objects (images mostly) that limitation was a bit of a problem. This
doesn't reflect on memcached per se
of course. But we found it expedient to go to a vendor, rather than
work on the problem ourselves.
We don't currently have any SSD equipped memcached boxes other than
the Gear6 ones. I don't expect
there would be any significant issues with them if we did. We've had
no storage issues with the SSD equipped
Gear6 ones.