Relationship between memcachedserver, libmemcached, and memcachedclient

Zhanhailiang Date: 2014-10-06

1. Download and install libevent (memcachedserver depends on libevent package)

cd libevent-2.0.21-stable/./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libevent-2.0.21-stablemake && make install

2. Download and install memcachedserver

cd memcached-1.4.20./configure --prefix=/usr/local/memcached-1.4.20 --with-libevent=/usr/local/libevent-2.0.21-stablemake && make install

3. Download and install libmemcached

cd libmemcached-1.0.18./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libmemcached-1.0.18 --with-memcachedmake && make install

Note the official description of libmemcached:

4. Download and install memcachedclient

/usr/local/php/bin/phpize  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libmemcached-1.0.18  --with-memcached --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config  --with-gearmandmake && make install

Note the official description of memcachedclient:

Summary:

1. Memcachedserver is essentially a distributed object cache system and only provides basic TCP access interfaces.
2. Libmemcached encapsulates the memcached server and provides a complete set of interfaces.
3. Memcachedclient calls the libmemcached encapsulated interface to add, delete, modify, and query operations on memcachedserver.

Relationship between memcachedserver, libmemcached, and memcachedclient