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Are you looking for the most efficient way to increment a counter to use on a web page e.g. to display specific page views or amount of times an object is requested? Memcache provides a really fast method of incrementing a simple counter. You can then decide to sync the counter data to your database when required, i.e. every 100 views. The demonstration below uses my DB and memcache PHP wrapper classes to increment a simple counter held in a mysql table and incremented via memcache.