The advent of the emerging field of Big Data brought with it the promise of highly-scalable databases that could handle terabytes of data at a time. As anyone dealing with colossal datasets will ...

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In his timeless masterpiece, The Art of War, Sun Tzu states: “…one who is skilled in warfare principles …takes the enemy’s walled city without attacking… His aim must be to take All-Under-Heaven ...

A data (or database) cache is a high-performance data storage layer that stores a subset of transient data so that future requests for that data are provided faster than by accessing the primary ...

boosts application performance by reducing the number of database calls to retrieve the data. ASP.NET provides two basic caching techniques: page (Page Output and Page Fragment) and programmatic ...

Facebook is releasing mcrouter, its software for turning many cache servers around the world into one distributed system, as open source. The company announced the release on Monday at its @Scale ...

The shorter the distance application data has to travel to drive a web application, the better the user experience will be. Developers have a wide array of places to use a data cache, but each comes ...