MemcachedServer

This is a toy memcached server inspired by memcached protocol doc.

This project currently supports only a subset of all memcached functionalities. For example, expiration is not supported right now.

The server runs on a single machine, and provides high-performant and high-concurrency in-memory caching solution.

Build and Run

Download the source code:

$ git clone https://github.com/wang103/MemcachedServer.git
$ cd MemcachedServer

Install Apache Ant for building the source code.

Build the source code:

$ ant

Start the server:

$ ant MemcachedServerApp
or
$ java -cp "bin:lib/*" memcachedserver.MemcachedServerApp -p 11211

The server accepts the following arguments:

-p <port>       TCP port the server listens on. Default is 11211.
-b <buckets>    The number of buckets in the backend data storage. More buckets, less lock contention. Default is 1000.
-c <capacity>   The capacity for each bucket in the backend data storage. More capacity, less eviction. Default is 10000.

Run all test cases:

$ ant test

Clean the build:

$ ant clean

Testing

To interact with the memcached server, open a terminal and connect to the server by using telnet:

$ telnet localhost 11211

Support Commands

Storage Commands

- set
- add
- replace
- append
- prepend

Retrieval Commands

- get

Other Commands

- delete

Future Works

1. Fully support all memcached functionalities
2. Support distributed setup
3. Benchmark its performance (latency & bandwidth)
4. Periodically flush in-memory cache to disk for recovery after potential crash