A trigger-based middleware cache for ORMs
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spelling | mit-1721.1/738952022-09-30T23:03:27Z A trigger-based middleware cache for ORMs Gupta, Priya Zeldovich, Nickolai Madden, Samuel R. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Zeldovich, Nickolai Madden, Samuel R. ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, December 12-16, 2011. Proceedings Caching is an important technique in scaling storage for high-traffic web applications. Usually, building caching mechanisms involves significant effort from the application developer to maintain and invalidate data in the cache. In this work we present CacheGenie, a caching middleware which makes it easy for web application developers to use caching mechanisms in their applications. CacheGenie provides high-level caching abstractions for common query patterns in web applications based on Object-RelationalMapping (ORM) frameworks. Using these abstractions, the developer does not have to worry about managing the cache (e.g., insertion and deletion) or maintaining consistency (e.g., invalidation or updates) when writing application code. We design and implement CacheGenie in the popular Django web application framework, with PostgreSQL as the database backend and memcached as the caching layer. To automatically invalidate or update cached data, we use triggers inside the database. CacheGenie requires no modifications to PostgreSQL or memcached. To evaluate our prototype, we port several Pinax web applications to use our caching abstractions. Our results show that it takes little effort for application developers to use CacheGenie, and that CacheGenie improves throughput by 2-2.5× for read-mostly workloads in Pinax. Quanta Computer (Firm) 2012-10-11T19:21:51Z 2012-10-11T19:21:51Z 2011-12 2011-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-3-642-25820-6 0302-9743 1611-3349 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73895 Gupta, Priya, Nickolai Zeldovich, and Samuel Madden. “A Trigger-Based Middleware Cache for ORMs.” Middleware 2011. Ed. Fabio Kon & Anne-Marie Kermarrec. LNCS Vol. 7049. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. 329–349. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7470-3265 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0238-2703 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25821-3_17 Middleware 2011 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Springer Berlin / Heidelberg MIT web domain |
spellingShingle | Gupta, Priya Zeldovich, Nickolai Madden, Samuel R. A trigger-based middleware cache for ORMs |
title | A trigger-based middleware cache for ORMs |
title_full | A trigger-based middleware cache for ORMs |
title_fullStr | A trigger-based middleware cache for ORMs |
title_full_unstemmed | A trigger-based middleware cache for ORMs |
title_short | A trigger-based middleware cache for ORMs |
title_sort | trigger based middleware cache for orms |
url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73895 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7470-3265 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0238-2703 |
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