SET @transaction_isolation= @@global.transaction_isolation; SET GLOBAL TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED; INSERT INTO cache_policies VALUES("cache_policy", "innodb_only", "innodb_only", "innodb_only", "innodb_only"); INSERT INTO config_options VALUES("separator", "|"); INSERT INTO containers VALUES ("desc_t1", "test", "t1", "c1", "c2,c21", "c3", "c4", "c5", "PRIMARY"); USE test; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t1; CREATE TABLE t1 (c1 VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', c2 CHAR(120) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', c21 CHAR(60) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', primary key(c1)) ENGINE = INNODB DEFAULT CHARSET UTF8; Warnings: Warning 3719 'utf8' is currently an alias for the character set UTF8MB3, but will be an alias for UTF8MB4 in a future release. Please consider using UTF8MB4 in order to be unambiguous. INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('1', 'Darmstadt', 'City'); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('2', 'Berlin', 'Mitte'); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('3', 'Cottbus', 'West'); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('4', 'München', 'Süd'); INSTALL PLUGIN daemon_memcached SONAME 'libmemcached.so'; SHOW CREATE TABLE t1; Table Create Table t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `c1` varchar(30) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `c2` char(120) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', `c21` char(60) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', PRIMARY KEY (`c1`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 SELECT c1, c2, c21 FROM t1; c1 c2 c21 1 Darmstadt City 2 Berlin Mitte 3 Cottbus West 4 München Süd Here are the memcached results before set: Darmstadt |City Here are the memcached results after set: Beijing |City SELECT c1, c2, c21 FROM t1; c1 c2 c21 1 Beijing City 2 Berlin Mitte 3 Cottbus West 4 München Süd DROP TABLE t1; UNINSTALL PLUGIN daemon_memcached; DROP DATABASE innodb_memcache; SET @@global.transaction_isolation= @transaction_isolation;