title: Difference between Memcached and Hadoop?
body: <p>What is the basic difference between Memcached and Hadoop? Microsoft seems to do memcached with the Windows Server AppFabric.</p>
  
  <p>I know memcached is a giant key value hashing function using multiple servers. What is hadoop and how is hadoop different from memcached? Is it used to store data? objects? I need to save giant in memory objects, but it seems like I need some kind of way of splitting this giant objects into "chunks" like people are talking about. When I look into splitting the object into bytes, it seems like Hadoop is popping up.</p>
  
  <p>I have a giant class in memory with upwards of 100 mb in memory. I need to replicate this object, cache this object in some fashion. When I look into caching this monster object, it seems like I need to split it like how google is doing. How is google doing this. How can hadoop help me in this regard. My objects are not simple structured data. It has references up and down the classes inside, etc.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea, pointers, thoughts, guesses are helpful.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>