Singleton in Cluster environment

Question

What is the best strategy to refactor a Singleton object to a cluster environment?

We use Singleton to cache some custom information from Database. Its mostly

Answer 1

Or something like memcached

http://www.danga.com/memcached/

What is memcached? memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Danga Interactive developed memcached to enhance the speed of LiveJournal.com, a site which was already doing 20 million+ dynamic page views per day for 1 million users with a bunch of webservers and a bunch of database servers. memcached dropped the database load to almost nothing, yielding faster page load times for users, better resource utilization, and faster access to the databases on a memcache miss.