General Capabilities

GridCache is a general distributed cache that provides a consistent view of data to all clients (Drivers and Engines) in the Grid. Data resides in unique regions of the cache. Data can be serializable Java objects, .NET objects, strings, and byte arrays for C++. The global cache of data can be arbitrarily large, limited only by the amount of disk space on the Manager. Each component locally caches only the data requested by users on that component. The local cache of each client, designed to speed up access to frequently used data, is in-memory with the option in Java Drivers and Engines to spool to disk. The size of the local cache is configurable through the Engine distribution configuration or the Driver properties file.