Welcome to the libmemcached documentation

Libmemcached

Basics

• Introducing the C Client Library for memcached
• Versioning
• Creating and destroying a memcached_st
• Examples
• Configuring Libmemcached
• Retrieving errors

Working with data

• Incrementing and Decrementing Values
• Deleting data from a server
• Determine if a keys exists.
• Flushing client buffers
• Wiping clean the contents of a server
• Retrieving data from the server
• Working with result sets
• Store, replace, add, or atomically add data to the server
• Appending or Prepending to data on the server
• Working with data on the server in an atomic fashion

Advanced Topics

• Set encryption key
• Modifying how the driver behaves
• Setting callbacks
• Dumping data from a server
• Generating hash values directly
• Use custom allocators for embedded usage
• Disconnecting a client from a server
• Error Codes (memcached_return_t)
• SASL support
• Managing lists of servers
• Manipulate the server information stored in memcached_st
• Coverting Errors, memcached_return_t, to strings
• Client Error messages
• Storing custom user information in the client.
• Setting the verbosity of a server
• Getting version information about the client and server
• DEFAULTS

Interface Versions

• libmemcached 1.0 API
  • memcached_touch, memcached_touch_by_key
• libmemcached 1.1 API

Deprecated Functions

• memcached_fetch

Platform Specific

• Systemtap support
• Required C types

Deriving statistics from a server

• Anaylzing servers
• Working with statistical information from a server

Libmemcachedutil

• Introducing
• Working with memcached pools

Client Applications

• memcapable - Checking a Memcached server capibilities and compatibility
• memcat - “cat” data from a server
• memcp - Copy data to a server
• memdump - Dumping your server
• memerror - translate an error code to a string
• memflush - flush all data from a server
• memrm - Remove data from a server
• memslap - Load testing and benchmarking a server
• memaslap - Load testing and benchmarking a server
• memstat - Gather statistics from a server
• memexist - Check for the existance of a key
• memparse - Parse an option string
• memping - Test to see if a server is available.
• memtouch - Touches a key.

Libhashkit

• Introducing libhashkit
• Creating a hashkit structure
• Available Hashes
• hashkit_value

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page