P99 CONF 2025 is coming Oct 22-23! Call for speakers is open.

SESSION ON-DEMAND

All Things P99

The event for developers who care about P99 percentiles and high-performance, low-latency applications

Why Databases Cache, but Caches Go to Disk

ScyllaDB teamed up with Memcached to compare how caches and databases handle storage and memory across different scenarios. We’ll dive into ScyllaDB’s row-based cache vs. Memcached’s in-memory hash table and IO handling.

22 minutes

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes, Technical Director at ScyllaDB

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes is a Technical Director at ScyllaDB.

Alan Kasindorf, Founder of Cache Forge

Alan runs Cache Forge, supporting enterprises relying on memcached. He has spent decades scaling infrastructure for startups and enterprises: an early employee of Fastly, consultant for users with massive caches, and at various social networks stretching back to LiveJournal, the originator of memcached.