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CL-MEMCACHED

CL-MEMCACHED is a simple, fast & thread-safe library to interface with the memcached object caching system. It implements the Memcached TEXT protocol.

According to the home page :

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Tested on SBCL, CCL & CMUCL.


Global variables

*memcache*

Most commands have this as a fallback binding. Useful if we are only using one cache or if we want to bind it to a cache and then use it multiple places.

*mc-use-pool*

If this is true then the connection pool will be used. On SBCL this is about 3x faster.

*mc-default-encoding*

Babel is used for encodeing/decoding the data. Memcached expects octets. Default encoding is UTF-8.


make-memcache &key (ip "127.0.0.1") (port 11211) (name "Memcache") (pool-size 2)

Makes a memcached data-structure. We use this for further transactions. This has a inbuilt pool and know how to make new pool items.


mc-set key data &key (memcache *memcache*) (timeout 0) (flags 0) (noreply nil) (cas-unique nil) (mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool*)

Stores data for the key in the memcache. The parameters have same value as the memcached server commands. We have similar mc-add, mc-replace, mc-append, mc-prepend functions available.


mc-cas key data cas-unique &key (memcache *memcache*) (timeout 0) (flags 0) (noreply nil) (external-format *mc-default-encoding*) (mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool*)

This is a Check & Store operation.


mc-get keys-list &key (memcache *memcache*) (mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool*)

Returns a list of lists corresponding to responses to found keys in the keys-list.


mc-get+ key-or-list-of-keys &key (memcache *memcache*) (mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool*)

This is a wrapper around mc-get. It accepts 1 or many keys. Returns 1 or many memcache-response type structures containing all the pieces of the response.

The memcache-response structure has these slots : key, flags, bytes, cas-unique, data-raw. All the slot accessors start with mc-


mc-data response &key (external-format *mc-default-encoding*)

Takes the data-raw, which is in octets, and converts it to string using the external-format.


mc-get-value key &key (memcache *memcache*) (mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool*) (external-format *mc-default-encoding*)

A wrapper around mc-data and mc-get+. Give it a key and it gets a string value in return. Misuse is entierly the users responsibility. :)


mc-del key &key (memcache *memcache*) (noreply nil) (mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool*)

Deletes key from the cache.


mc-incr key &key (value 1) (noreply nil) (memcache *memcache*) (mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool*)

Increments key in place by value. If key not found then will return NOT_FOUND.


mc-decr key &key (value 1) (noreply nil) (memcache *memcache*) (mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool*)

Decrements key by value. If key not found then will return NOT_FOUND.


mc-touch key expiry-time &key ( noreply nil ) ( memcache *memcache* ) ( mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool* )

Change expiry time of key.


mc-flush-all &key ( delay 0 ) ( noreply nil) ( memcache *memcache* ) ( mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool* )

expires all the current keys.


mc-version &key ( memcache *memcache* ) ( mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool* )

Returns a text string with the version of the memcached server


mc-verbosity &key ( level 1 ) ( noreply nil) ( memcache *memcache* ) ( mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool* )

Sets the verbosity level of the logging output


mc-stats &key (memcache *memcache*) (noreply nil) (mc-use-pool *mc-use-pool*)

Returns a alist of the stats.


mc-stats-summary &key (memcache *memcache*)

Prints all the details from the alist. ;) Not too hot, but hey.


Example Usage for testing.

CL-USER> (require 'cl-memcached)
NIL

CL-MEMCACHED> (in-package :cl-memcached)
#<PACKAGE "CL-MEMCACHED">

CL-MEMCACHED> (setf *memcache* (make-memcache))
#<MEMCACHED-SERVER Name:Memcache IP:127.0.0.1 Port:11211 >

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-quick-test "foo" "bar")
Success SET
Success GET
NIL

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-set "t1" "oooooooooooooooooooooo")
STORED
:INTERNAL

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-get+ "t1")
#<MEMCACHED-RESPONSE Key:t1 Data-Length:22 >

CL-MEMCACHED> (describe *)
#<MEMCACHED-RESPONSE Key:t1 Data-Length:22 >
  [structure-object]

Slots with :INSTANCE allocation:
  KEY         = "t1"
  FLAGS       = "0"
  BYTES       = 22
  CAS-UNIQUE  = NIL
  DATA-RAW    = #(111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111..
; No value

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-data (mc-get+ "t1"))
"oooooooooooooooooooooo"

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-get-value "t1")
"oooooooooooooooooooooo"

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-set "t2" "0")
STORED
:INTERNAL

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-incr "t3")
NOT_FOUND

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-incr "t2")
1
1

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-incr "t2")
2
1

CL-MEMCACHED> (mc-decr "t2")
1
1

AUTHORS:

Abhijit 'quasi' Rao quasi@quasilabs.in

DEPENDENCIES:

Note : The http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-memcached/ is the homepage. But the version there is older and the documentation out of date. I have lost the creds, :-). Till I manage to set that right please ignore that one.

Benchmark

Host OS : OSX 10.8.4 Dataset: 1024 bytes (1kb) text string. Repeat 10000 times.

|-------------------+------------------+---------------+------------------+---------------|
| implementation    | SET without pool | SET with pool | GET without pool | GET with pool |
|-------------------+------------------+---------------+------------------+---------------|
| SBCL 1.1.10       |            4.942 |         0.713 |            4.905 |         0.690 |
| CCL 1.9-r15759    |            4.711 |         0.847 |            4.506 |         0.648 |
| CMUCL 20D Unicode |            4.460 |         0.970 |            4.290 |         0.810 |
|-------------------+------------------+---------------+------------------+---------------|
| Dalli on Ruby 1.9 |                  |         0.957 |                  |         1.033 |
|-------------------+------------------+---------------+------------------+---------------|

When we do not use the pool we make a new socket connection every time.

The Ruby 'dalli' client, which implements the binary protocol, uses the same socket (I think) so this should be comparable with our with-pool.