Alchemy v. 1.1.1 - a simple, light-weight list caching server
Alchemy is fast, simple, and distributed list caching server intended to relieve load on relational databases. It uses the same scalable, non-blocking architecture that Starling (github.com/defunkt/starling) is built on. It also speaks the Memcache protocol, so any language that has a memcached client can operate with Alchemy.
This project is hosted at GitHub:
github.com/teej/alchemy/tree/master
Alchemy can be installed through GitHub gems:
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com sudo gem install teej-alchemy
In a console window start the Alchemy server. By default it runs verbosely in the foreground, listening on 127.0.0.1:22122 and stores its files under /tmp/alchemy. To run it as a daemon:
alchemy -d
In a new console test the put and get of items in a list:
irb
>> require 'alchemy'
=> true
>> alchemy = Alchemy.new('127.0.0.1:22122')
=> #<Alchemy:0x203f384 ... >
>> alchemy.set("my_array", "chunky")
=> nil
>> alchemy.set("my_array", "bacon")
=> nil
>> alchemy.get("my_array")
=> ["chunky", "bacon"]
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TJ Murphy
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Blaine Cook
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Chris Wanstrath
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AnotherBritt
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Glenn Rempe
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Abdul-Rahman Advany
Alchemy - a simple, light-weight list caching server. Copyright 2008 TJ Murphy