Managing Data Relationships in Cache

Author: Iqbal Khan

A distributed cache lets you greatly improve application performance and scalability. But, a cache is a simple hash-table interface whereas most data today is relational. This complicates issues about managing relationships among different data elements in the cache to preserve data integrity.

This article goes into detail on strategies for managing data relationships in the cache. It touches on managing many-to-one, one-to-one, and one-to-many relationships. It also discussed how to handle collections in the cache and maintain data integrity between a collection and its individual data elements.

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Author: Iqbal M. Khan works for Alachisoft, a leading software company providing O/R Mapping and Clustered Object Caching solutions for .NET. You can reach him at iqbal@alachisoft.com or visit Alachisoft at www.alachisoft.com.