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Are people really still writing these silly articles? Is it 2009 again?

Author does not know the difference between a caching layer, a transactional RDBMS, and distributed non-structured data store.

NoSQL is not ACID, any database NoSQL/RDBMS can be slow when not designed properly, caching is great when you can, and of course not enough people read documentation, only sensationalist trollop like this.

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Author does not know the difference between a caching layer, a transactional RDBMS, and distributed non-structured data store.

The author was not referring to using memcached to store the results of a query, but rather the new memcached API in MySQL 5.6. With this API, you can access data in InnoDB just like you do with memcached (key/value get/put/update), while at the same time retaining SQL query flexibility. http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-my...

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