The memcached cache is a very simple massive key/value storage system, and as such there is no way of compartmentalizing data automatically into different sections. For example, if you are storing information by the unique ID returned from a MySQL database, then storing the data from two different tables will run into issues because the same ID will probably be valid in both tables.
Some interfaces provide an automated mechanism for creating namespaces when storing information into the cache. In practice, these namespaces are merely a prefix before a given ID that is applied every time a value is stored or retrieve from the cache.
You can implement the same basic principle by using keys that
describe the object and the unique identifier within the key
that you supply when the object is stored. For example, when
storing user data, prefix the ID of the user with
user: or user-.
Note
Using namespaces or prefixes only controls the keys stored/retrieved. There is no security within memcached, and therefore no way to enforce that a particular client only accesses keys with a particular namespace. Namespaces are only useful as a method of identifying data and preventing corruption of key/value pairs.
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