Single-Node Memcached

Features

1. Low system overhead and high QPS

   Single-node instances do not support data synchronization or data persistence, reducing system overhead and supporting higher concurrency. QPS of single-node DCS Memcached instances reaches up to 100,000.

2. Process monitoring and automatic fault recovery

   With an HA monitoring mechanism, if a single-node DCS instance becomes faulty, a new process is started within 30 seconds to resume service provisioning.

3. Out-of-the-box usability and no data persistence

   Single-node DCS instances can be used out of the box because they do not involve data loading. If your service requires high QPS, you can warm up the data beforehand to avoid strong concurrency impact on the backend database.

4. Low-cost and suitable for development and testing

   Single-node instances are 40% cheaper than master/standby DCS instances, suitable for setting up development or testing environments.

In summary, single-node DCS instances support highly concurrent read/write operations, but do not support data persistence. Data will be deleted after instances are restarted. They are suitable for scenarios which do not require data persistence, such as database front-end caching, to accelerate access and ease the concurrency load off the backend. If the desired data does not exist in the cache, requests will go to the database. When restarting the service or the DCS instance, you can pre-generate cache data from the disk database to relieve pressure on the backend during startup.

Architecture

Figure 1 shows the architecture of single-node DCS Memcached instances.

Figure 1 Single-node DCS instance architecture

Architecture description:

• VPC

  The VPC where all nodes of the instance are run.

  

  For intra-VPC access, the client and the instance must be in the same VPC with specified security group rule configurations.

  For details, see Security Group Configurations.

• Application

  The client of the instance, which is the application running on an Elastic Cloud Server (ECS).

  DCS Memcached instances are compatible with the Memcached protocol, and can be accessed through open-source clients. For examples of accessing DCS instances, see Accessing a DCS Memcached Instance (Discontinued).

• DCS instance

  A single-node DCS instance, which has only one node and one Memcached process.

  DCS monitors the availability of the instance in real time. If the Memcached process becomes faulty, DCS starts a new process to resume service provisioning.

  Use port 11211 to access a DCS Memcached instance.