cacheio

0.5.1 • Public • Published

cacheio - cache IO

A fully featured and configurable cache store for data coming from backend stores. cacheio aims at boosting performance in web application.

INSTALL

$ npm install cacheio

FEATURES

The cacheio cache store features configurable cache TTL, negative TTL, and a garbage collector. cacheio is designed to be easily dumped into existing code

USAGE

setup

var cacheio = require("cacheio");
var entryStore = new cacheio.CacheStore(cacheOpts);
# implement the data retriever
entryStore.entryGet = function(function(eid, cb){

});
# upon retrieving data entries the entryGet handler must call  CacheStore.setCache(eid, data) or CacheStore.setNegativeCache(eid)  and cb ,respectively 

runtime

entryStore.get(eid, function(err, data){
	if(!err){
		// make use of data
	}
});

inside

CONFIGURATION

the CacheStore constructor accepts an options object that can include the following params

  • cacheTTL : entry time to live in seconds (counter is reset for an entry upon read access)
  • negativeTTL : negative cache for entries in seconds
  • gcFreq : garbage collector frequency in seconds (GC cleans cache timedout entries)

AUTHOR

Gidi Bloch

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npm i cacheio

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0.5.1

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