Using MySQL with R is pretty easy, with RMySQL. Here are a few notes to keep me straight on a few things I always get snagged on. Typically, most folks are going to want to analyze data that's already in a MySQL database. Being a little bass-ackwards,...
memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.