Distributed and Persistent Cache

Smart caching algorithms are an absolute necessity for the Web to be able to grow without exhausting network resources. There are already several different approaches on managing a cache, but most of them are not distributed among multiple applications.

Requirements

There are many possible aspects of this project, however, the major ones that should be considered are:

How should the objects in the cache be indexed
Who is responsible for garbage collection and when should it be done
How can the state of the cache be kept presistent and so that distributed applications can access the cache at any time knowing the current state

Implementation

The designed model must be implemented and tested as a supplementary module for the Library of Common Code using the set W3C of style guide lines for C-programming.

Henrik Frystyk, May 1995