Enhanced client libraries for memcached.

• Provides optional, configuration-enabled support for:
• Replication among groups of memcached servers.
• Persistence to generic datasources.
• Partitioning of data to multiple tables within a datasource (e.g., disperse_data, disperse_lock, disperse_session)
• Cache-based sessions (depending on language).
• Uses a shared XML configuration so that multiple languages can access cached data in the same manner, thus enabling support for hybrid (multi-language) software systems.

Languages supported:

• PHP

Languages planned:

• Java
• Perl
• Python

Future features:

• Support for multiple datasources (language-specific?)

PHP Example:

// include the library
include('/path/to/disperse/disperse.php');

// get reference to cache
$cache =& CacheFactory::getInstance();

// setup something to cache
$value = 'here is some data that needs to be cached';

// update item in cache
$cache->set('some key', serialize($value));

// library handles storage of key/value according to configuration