What is the best approach to implement distributed caching with .NET?
Edit: I was looking for a general caching schema for internal and external applications
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You should take a look at memcached. It can run on as many nodes as you want/need. There are at least two .Net clients available: here and here.
Sean Carpenter
2008-09-01 22:41:20
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What are you caching (and why)? How widely are you planning on distributing the cache? On a LAN, on a (private) WAN, over the whole interweb?
Unsliced
2008-09-01 22:42:00
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In the near future it will be Velocity. This is essentially a .Net implementation similar to Tangosol/Oracle's Coherence.
John Channing
2008-09-01 22:43:17
@John Channing: Have you tried Velocity yet? +1 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/551514/experiences-using-microsoft-distributed-cache-velocity
Kb
2009-02-15 20:58:24
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There is also NCache as another tool in addition to Velocity and memcached ports. As for strategies you will need to think about what @Unsliced is talking about because the strategy is different from the tool.
Mark Harris
2008-09-01 22:49:29
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We are huge fans of ScaleOut StateServer. In our tests, it was 4x faster than MemcacheDotNet and almost 2x faster than Enyim, with a lower memory footprint. It was well worth the money (the others are free).
Obviously, your mileage my vary, as every caching scenario is different, but I would definitely recommend kicking the tires on StateServer.
Portman
2008-09-01 23:19:55
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maybe you should check Shared Cache (http://www.sharedcache.com || http://sharedcache.codeplex.com) - it fast, free and open source.
regards, roni