Membase Server Beta 4 is now available

The Beta 4 release of Northscale's Membase Server is now available for download. In this release there are two major features:

• Support for 64-bit Windows
• Memcached Buckets

What exactly are Memcached Buckets?

You now can create buckets in your Membase Server cluster that behave exactly like memcached, which means you can use Membase Server as a drop-in replacement for your existing memcached setup. In a single cluster you can now share the resources between memcached buckets and membase buckets.

Couple of tidbits about the behavior of Memcached Buckets:

• Fundamentally designed as caches, not permanent data stores
• As the cache runs out of available cache memory, items are evicted from the cache, based on a least-recently-used (LRU) policy
• Memcached buckets do not persist data to disk and there is no replication between nodes
• A fixed amount of memory per node is allocated for use by the memcached bucket, so adding or removing nodes will change the size of the memcached bucket.

Download the beta here

Read the full release post here