I would like to propose my participation for Port InnoDB MemcacheInterface to MariaDB (https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4674) as GSOC 2015 Student.

For the purpose of security following is the approach I have planned to accomplish for this project:

The plugin will contain a xtradb_memcached.sql table for configuation option, these configuration options will also contain a username, password , tcp/udp address, port no. as column objects which will help us authenticate the connection for a specified user, thus on authentication the server would fetch corresponding tcp/udp address and port to connect with the memcached server.

Hence this will not just prove an improvement to the existing mysql plugin but also provide a better security to the database.

Nextly after connecting with a memcached server, our database will act as a NoSql system providing rapid user query transaction.

Also please follow my proposal here: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2015/aalekhn/5757334940811264

Waiting for your comments regarding the approach.

---Aalekh