Re: [elephant-devel] Object caching

2008-06-11 Thread Robert L. Read
Obviously, I am biased, not by self-conceit but by familiarity with DCM. I think something like DCM, in which you use a write-through in-memory cache, is very workable. To my mind, an ideal system would allow cache policy to be set separately from the concurrency control and elephant usage. To m

[elephant-devel] Object caching

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Eslick
I'm dissatisfied with the current approach to object caching in elephant-unstable. Issues: - Not thread safe - Break most transactional guarantees - Adds per-instance slot overhead to maintain the cache mode - Incompatible with indexing API - No standard usage model with well understood implica