Cache Servers Backward Compatibility

NCache provides a cache server backward compatibility protocol designed for enterprise legacy support. This feature allows NCache 3.8 and onward clients to communicate smoothly with upgraded server versions without needing application redeployment or library re-referencing. This ensures that infrastructure upgrades do not force a synchronous update across your client-side application stack.

Details on Cache Server Backward Compatibility

Backward compatibility will be for onward versions only, any client earlier than 3.8 will not be supported by this protocol. With this feature a client should work with both an older and an upgraded version of the server; otherwise, with each update on the server, clients are supposed to be upgraded accordingly.

Upgrading a server for a new version involves adding new features of NCache while the existing features remain unchanged. For example, an upgraded server can only add new features without changing the older ones. In this way, it will not break the compatibility with its older clients.

See Also

Client Backward Compatibility
Data Load Balancing
Bridge for WAN Replication
Eviction