[Zope-dev] ZCatalog caching with memcached

[Russ Ferriday]

On 27 Oct 2008, at 13:10, Roché Compaan wrote:

>

>>
>
> Improving the performance of indexes is really really hard. In this  
> case
> I really don't think caching is a band-aid, it is a good solution.  
> Even
> with optimised indexes, you will find that you need caching to get
> reasonable performance if you have a catalog with close to a million  
> or
> more documents indexed. Given a large enough catalog, I would argue  
> that
> caching is equally as necessary as having a large cache for a ZEO
> client.
>
> But caches expire and results get invalidated, and therefor we should
> continue to optimise indexes. With some help we should be able to
> contribute at this level too.
>
> -- 
> Roché Compaan
> Upfront Systems                   http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za


Thanks to you and everyone else working on these sometimes thankless  
performance improvements.

--r
Russ Ferriday - Topia Systems - Open Source content management with  
Plone and Zope
russf at topia.com - office: +44 2076 1777588 - mobile: +44 7789 338868 -  
skype: ferriday

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