# Memcached Plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memcached-plugin/2918>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 17, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memcached-plugin/2918 "2010-04-17T19:44:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memcached-plugin/2918/1 "2010-04-17T19:44:24Z")

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Hi,

Just pushed to master that exposes elasticsearch REST protocol over  
memcached protocol. Seems like it can give better performance over HTTP when  
used. Here is the issue:  
[http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/issue/141](http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/issue/141).

As a side note, it does impose some restrictions. I am currently looking  
for a binary REST protocol, or something similar, that will expose the full  
power of REST over a well known protocol. My belief is that the memcached  
client libs are simply implemented much better when compared to the http  
counterparts (there shouldn't really be such a big different as we see in  
perl for example).

cheers,  
shay.banon

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/memcached-plugin/2918/2 "2017-07-06T04:24:31Z")

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