I'm building a web application under mod_perl that needs to store short-term state information. Much of the information tends to change slowly, and is handled by a PostgreSQL database. However, there is one portion of the application that will be changing information (potentially) several times a minute.

I do not necessarily need an SQL database to do this (though the final results of this process might go back into PostgreSQL), but I do need it to have good performance. I need some sort of connection persistance across requests (like Apache::DBI). A completely in-memory database would be perfect.

Are there any existing modules that allow you to, say, grab a saved, in-memory hash from across Apache processes?

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In reply to Database for Transient Information by hardburn

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