RavenDB as an alternative to memcache?

[monsters]

I'm currently running both (actually couchDB as a memcache replacement)

Seems to me that ravenDB in RAM mode, might do the same... is there a way to run 1 database in 'normal' mode, and another in 'ram' mode?

[Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien)]

You can _do_ that ,sure.

But I am not sure what you are trying to get at. RavenDB is a persistent ACID database. Memcached is a cache.

Totally different things and optimization scenarios.

[monsters]

Mostly just looking to see if i could do it and simplify my server environment. pretty sure this is essentially what couchbase is doing currently.

On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 10:57:30 UTC-4, Oren Eini wrote:

You can _do_ that ,sure.

But I am not sure what you are trying to get at. RavenDB is a persistent ACID database. Memcached is a cache.

Totally different things and optimization scenarios.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:54 PM

I'm currently running both (actually couchDB as a memcache replacement)

[Itamar Syn-Hershko]

RavenDB has several levels of cache built in - is there anything pushing you to start adding more layers?

[Chris Marisic]

Make sure to look into the aggressively cache part too

[monsters]

So would anyone here suggest it wouldn't do the job as well as memcache?

[Itamar Syn-Hershko]

Question is, what job? caching is not what RavenDB is for, but if you use RavenDB you already enjoy lots and lots of caching, so question is why would you want to install another layer?

[Sean Kearon]

Make sure to look into the aggressively cache part too

Any relevant links for this, Chris? 

[Itamar Syn-Hershko]

http://ayende.com/blog/25601/ravendb-aggressive-caching-mode 

http://blog.orangelightning.co.uk/?p=39 

[Sean Kearon]

Thanks Itamar.

On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:06:03 UTC+1, Itamar Syn-Hershko wrote:

http://ayende.com/blog/25601/ravendb-aggressive-caching-mode 

http://blog.orangelightning.co.uk/?p=39 

[monsters]

That's quite nice. thank you.

[monsters]

The aggresive caching setting seems to have changed since this doc, does anyone have an example?

I can call it on the documentStore object, which returns an IDisposable object, not sure what i'm to do with that.. 

I could do this, but is it right?

using (var whatsThis = _documentStore.AggressivelyCacheFor(new TimeSpan(0,5,0)))
using (var session = _documentStore.OpenSession())
{
    //stuff
}

[Matt Warren]

You don't need to store the variable returned from the call, just make sure it's in the using statement so it gets disposed automaticially, like this:

using (_documentStore.AggressivelyCacheFor(new TimeSpan(0,5,0))) 

using (var session = _documentStore.OpenSession()) 
{
    //stuff
} 

There's some code samples here  https://github.com/ayende/ravendb/blob/master/Raven.Tests/Bugs/AggressiveCaching.cs