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# Database caching, what to cache
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### Introduction
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There are multiple levels you can cache that fall into two general categories: database queries and objects:
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- Row level
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- Query-level
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- Fully-formed serializable objects
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- Fully-rendered HTML
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Generaly, you should try to avoid file-based caching, as it makes cloning and auto-scaling more difficult.
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### Caching at the database query level
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Whenever you query the database, hash the query as a key and store the result to the cache. This approach suffers from expiration issues:
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- Hard to delete a cached result with complex queries
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- If one piece of data changes such as a table cell, you need to delete all cached queries that might include the changed cell
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### Caching at the object level
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See your data as an object, similar to what you do with your application code. Have your application assemble the dataset from the database into a class instance or a data structure(s) :
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- Remove the object from cache if its underlying data has changed
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- Allows for asynchronous processing: workers assemble objects by consuming the latest cached object
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Suggestions of what to cache:
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- User sessions
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- Fully rendered web pages
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- Activity streams
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- User graph data
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