-.TH "LIBMEMCACHED" "3" "April 08, 2011" "0.47" "libmemcached"
+.TH "LIBMEMCACHED" "3" "April 11, 2011" "0.47" "libmemcached"
.SH NAME
-libmemcached \- libmemcached Documentation
+libmemcached \- Introducing the C Client Library for memcached
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-Client library for memcached
-.SH LIBRARY
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-C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, \-lmemcached)
.SH SYNOPSIS
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-.ft C
#include <libmemcached/memcached.h>
-.ft P
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+Compile and link with \-lmemcached
.SH DESCRIPTION
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"Memcached is a high\-performance, distributed memory object caching
Nearly all functions return a \fBmemcached_return_t\fP value.
This value can be translated to a printable string with memcached_strerror(3).
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-Partitioning based on keys is testsed in the library. Using the key partioning
-functions it is possible to group sets of object onto servers.
+Objects are stored on servers by hashing keys. The hash value maps the key to a particular server. All clients understand how this hashing works, so it is possibly to reliably both push data to a server and retrieve data from a server.
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+Group keys can be optionally used to group sets of objects with servers.
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+Namespaces are supported, and can be used to partition caches so that multiple applications can use the same memcached servers.
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\fBmemcached_st\fP structures are thread\-safe, but each thread must
contain its own structure (that is, if you want to share these among
.SH AUTHOR
Brian Aker
.SH COPYRIGHT
-2011, Brian Aker
+2011, Brian Aker DataDifferential, http://datadifferential.com/
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