A Beginner's Guide To Cache Synchronization Strategies: Vlad Mihalcea

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A system of record is the authoritative data source when

information is scattered among various data providers.
When we introduce a caching solution, we automatically
duplicate our data. To avoid inconsistent reads and data
integrity issues, it’s very important to synchronize the
database and the cache (whenever a change occurs in the
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Cache-aside
The application code can manually manage both the

database and the cache information. The application logic
inspects the cache before hitting the database and it
updates the cache after any database modification.
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appealing, especially if we have to repeat these steps in
every data retrieval method. Leveraging an Aspect-
Oriented caching interceptor can mitigate the cache
leaking into the application code, but it doesn’t exonerate
us from making sure that both the database and the cache
are properly synchronized.
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Instead of managing both the database and the cache, we
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cache provider. All data interaction is, therefore, done
through the cache abstraction layer.
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Upon fetching a cache entry, the Cache verifies the
cached element availability and loads the underlying Get
resource on our behalf. The application uses the cache as it
the system of record and the cache is able to auto- Now
populate on demand.
Write-through
Analogous to the read-through data fetching strategy, the
cache can update the underlying database every time a
cache entry is changed.
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Although the database and the cache are updated

synchronously, we have the liberty of choosing the
transaction boundaries according to our current business
requirements.
If strong consistency is mandatory and the cache

provider offers an XAResource we can then enlist the
cache and the database in the same global transaction.
The database and the cache are therefore updated in a
single atomic unit-of-work
If consistency can be weaken, we can update the

cache and the database sequentially, without using a
global transaction. Usually the cache is changed first
and if the database update fails, the cache can use a
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Write-behind caching
To speed
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the cache changes and periodically flush them to the
database.
This strategy is employed by the Java Persistence

EntityManager (first-level cache), all entity state transitions
being flushed towards the end of the current running
transaction (or when a query is issued).
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The advantage of the write-behind caching strategy is that
we can batch the database DML statements, therefore
improving transaction response time.
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Clement
October 2, 2020
Thank a lot for all the information you

share, you make me very interested
by the persistance layer now and made me bought
your book to fully understand what happen in this
layer.
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October 2, 2020
Thanks. I’m glad you like my articles.
Enjoy reading the book as well. It’s
even better than the articles.
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If strong consistency is mandatory and the cache

If consistency can be weaken, we can update the

This strategy is employed by the Java Persistence

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