Hi, Now seems like a good time to discuss the future direction of the row cache and its only implementation OHC (https://github.com/snazy/ohc).
OHC is currently unmaintained and we don’t have the ability to release maven artifacts for it or commit to the original repo. I have reached out to the original maintainer about it and it seems like if we want to keep using it we will need to start releasing it under a new package from a different repo. I see four directions we could pursue. 1. Fork OHC and start publishing under a new package name and continue to use it 2. Replace OHC with a different cache implementation like Caffeine which would move it on heap 3. Deprecate the row cache entirely in either 5.0 or 5.1 and remove it in a later release 4. Do work to make a row cache not necessary and deprecate it later (or maybe now) I would like to find out what people know about row cache usage in the wild so we can use that to inform the future direction as well as the general thinking about what we should do with it going forward. Thanks, Ariel
