MemcacheDB is a distributed key-value storage system designed for persistent. It is NOT a cache solution, but a persistent storage engine for fast and reliable key-value based object storage and retrieval. It conforms to memcache protocol(not completed, see below), so any memcached client can have connectivity with it. MemcacheDB uses Berkeley DB as a storing backend, so lots of features including transaction and replication are supported.
是新浪互动社区技术团队2007年的一项重大的技术成果，现在应用于新浪互动社区多个产品线中，其中包括新浪博客等重头产品。能够实现任意memcache api的调用、数据实时落地以及主辅实时备份。
[@more@]http://blog.csdn.net/simonlsy/archive/2008/01/07/2027940.aspx
http://www.dbanotes.net/opensource/sina_memcachedb_ncache.html