rmccullagh / anacached

Welcome to anacached

This is a proof of concept clone of memcached, supporting only GET and SET commands.

Features:

• GET, SET
• Append only in memory hash table
• Configurable read buffer size
• 24 Byte binary protocol
• Multiplexed IO, (using epoll)
• REPL/CLI used to interfact with the protocol
• Simple to read code base

Compile

git clone https://github.com/rmccullagh/anacached
cd anacached
make
maka anacli

Run the server

anasever --listen-address 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 -v --enable-core-dumps 

Run the CLI

anacli --server-address 127.0.0.1 --port 8080

Commands

GET <key>
SET <key> <value>

FAQ

Q: Memcached is already fast, why do you need to clone it? A: Memcached is an amazing piece of software. anacached was created in a long standing effort to read an understand the memcached daemon.

Q: Can you delete keys? A: No, perhaps sometime in the future this will be implemented

Q: Why didn't you implement expirary times? A: Expiring keys is not something that I feel is important to do at this time.