It is a well-known fact that the bottlenecks of MySQL does not exist in its storage engines, but rather in the core, for example, its parser and execution planner. Last weekend I started to wonder how fast MySQL could be if those bottlenecks were skipped. Not being able to stop my curiousity, I started adding memcached proctol support to MySQL as a UDF. And that is Mycached. From what I unders