Use NoSQL in MySQL

Question

I've noticed MySQL could use Memcached NoSQL with InnoDB but I can't retrieve information about how to use it.

I want to use with PHP.

Are NoSQL queries standard?

Answer 1

First of all, MySQL only support memcached with NoSQL since version 5.6. Today this version it's not update yet in linux repositories and must be manually installed, specially in servers, e.g. MySQL --version (ubuntu) is 5.5.38 ; (RedHat server) 5.1

You also must install libevent-dev e.g:

Still some hacks are needed, and you must install memcache interface plugin for MySQL located in $MYSQL_HOME/share.

I found a well explained post how to install and try it: http://chipersoft.com/p/MySQL-via-Memcache/

Due to its young state, it's not for production servers.

Use it with PHP is easy because memcache is a native module in PHP when you have php5-cli and php5-memcache installed:

<?php
$memcache = new Memcache;
if (!$memcache->connect('localhost', 11211)) throw new Exception("Could not connect");

if (!$memcache->set('bar', 'John|Smith')) throw new Exception("Could not store value");

$memcache->get('@@aaa'); //switch containers
$result = $memcache->get('AA');

var_dump($result);

Conclusion, this method let you work with MySQL and NoSQL simultaneously. Memcache offers a quick, NoSQL way to retrieve and work with data in a well different manner than SQL.

Edit: Another useful link was this post by Tony Darnell