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Distributed Level-2 (L2) Cache

One of the major use scenarios for Cacheonix is a level-2 (L2) cache. An L2 cache provides caching services to an object-relational mapping (ORM) framework or a data mapping (DM) framework. An L2 cache hides the complexity of the caching logic from an application. Cacheonix L2 cache improves performance of an ORM or DM framework by reducing unnecessary trips to the database.

Cacheonix provides L2 caching for:

• ORM framework Hibernate
• DM framework MyBatis
• DM framework iBatis
• JPA and JDO framework DataNucleus

The following communication diagram illustrates using Cacheonix as an L2 cache:

In this use scenario an application does not access Cacheonix directly. Instead, the application utilizes a high level interface provided by an ORM or a DM framework. The framework uses Cacheonix for caching its internal data structures such as mapped objects and database query results. If the cached data is not available, the framework retrieves it from the database and puts it into the cache.

Cache Coherence

Cacheonix L2 cache ensures that updates to cached data made on one server are consistently seen by all servers in the cluster. Cacheonix achieves this by building Hibernate cache on top of Cacheonix intelligent cluster and cache coherence protocol the provides consistent data access even while servers fail or join the cluster.

See Also

• Download Cacheonix
• Configuring Distributed L2 Hibernate Cache
• Configuring Local L2 Hibernate Cache
• Configuring Cacheonix adapter for MyBatis
• Configuring Cacheonix plugin for iBatis
• Configuring Cacheonix DataNucleus L2 Cache

Other Use Scenarios for Cacheonix

• Distributed Java cache
• Application cache