Caching Concepts

This section explains basic caching concepts that will help you understand NCache in a better way.

In This Section

Introduction to NCache
Presents a brief introduction to NCache, with an emphasis on features, editions and requirements of NCache.

Caching Topologies
Explains what is a caching topology. It also discusses the four types of cache topologies in NCache.

Cache Cluster
Explains the concept of cache cluster and its main features.

Local Cache
Explains local cache and its two isolation levels.

Cache Client
Explains the concept of cache client and its basic features.

Client Cache
Explains cache client and its main features.

Data Load Balancing
Explains the concept of data load balancing and the two load balancing options that NCache provides.

Client Backward Compatibility
Explains the concept of client backward compatibility.

Eviction
Explains the concept of eviction and different options for eviction provided by NCache.

Indexing
Explains different type of indexing provided by NCache.

Runtime Data Sharing
Explains the concept of runtime data sharing in distributed caches.

Portable Data Types (.NET & Java)
Explains data types portability feature provided by NCache.

Class Versioning
Explains the concept of class versioning provided by NCache.

Graceful Node Down
Explains the graceful node down feature provided by NCache to avoid losing any background operations.

IP Binding
Explains the concept of IP Binding provided by NCache.

Separate Host Process
Explains how the cache hosts run on dedicated processes instead of one service.