Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements quickly ...

Object caching provides a mechanism to store frequently accessed data in memory, minimizing the calls to back-end database, and resulting in significant improvement in the application performance. It ...

Caching is a state management strategy that long has been used in applications to store relatively stable and frequently accessed data for faster access. It helps you to boost your application’s ...

Object caching is an important piece in the design and development of Web portals. In a typical Web portal application, we need the frequently accessed data in a JVM's memory, but, at the same time, ...

Smart developers live by the “buy before build” philosophy, but when it comes to improving data retrieval performance via a cache, build has been the only available option. Enter .NET’s Cache class, ...

The book, Object Oriented Application Development Using the Caché Postrelational Database, spotlights a database system that runs on Red Hat or TurboLinux with an unusual set of both object-oriented ...

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