Performance comparison: key/value stores for language model counts

Flagged for utter nonsense.<p>Author doesn't know what he's talking about, much less what he's measuring. Submitter put link-bait title that is not even related to the article.<p>How did this get voted up?

That sounds very surprising... these numbers look pretty appalling for memcached... can anyone confirm that this is not simply due to a badly set-up memcached? Or perhaps the author is not using memcached for its intended purpose?<p>I find it hard to believe that a widespread solution like memcached would be 100 times slower than one of its alternatives.<p>Also, all those numbers look awfully low.

1. The HN title is completely misleading. 2. The linked article is reporting some odd numbers. Eg. Facebook has reported several hundred thousand operations / second for memcached, the article is reporting 120. Also, the article is only reporting numbers for disk-based BDB, but BDB also has an in-memory mode, google for "bdb in-memory". I don't actually know how it performs, but it's possible.