225 tweets/sec Eventually, I’ll want a purely in-memory, distributed table. That’s why I was interested in Memcached. But for development purposes, it’s very convenient to use an on-disk database. In the past I’ve used BerkeleyDB for this. (An SQL database is also possible but seems like overkill.) Ideally it would be nice to have a distributed key-value store with a heavy caching layer. Check out