architecture and distributed caching thoughts in combination with indeXus.Net SharedCache - Part 5

SharedCache thought no. 5: Optimize Serialization

Serialization - easy - just add an attribute on top of the class and we are done, right? Objects that are stored in cache need to be serialized and the default CLR (.net) standard / default serialization is inefficient and has poor performance. beside the fact that the object output size is huge which has another impact: Memory usage can be reduced by 50% by implementing the ISerializable() attribute.

Another very interesting point is that depend on your object data structure, consider to serialize using data streams instead of object streams this can make a phenomenal impact in the positive way. Serialization performance improvements are up to an order of magnitude, the reduction in size can be up to 80%!!!

Which is actually not less this is a huge difference!

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Soon i will add some additional thought about how to provide optimistic transactional handling with SharedCache.

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* - RDBMS - relational database management system
** - DAO - Data Access Objects