Everything about Database caching

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Database cachingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: An FPGA-Based Performance Analysis of Hardware Caching Techniques for Blockchain Key-Value DatabaseInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Data sufficiency for queries on cacheThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A predicate-based caching scheme for client-server database architecturesCited 126 times
5. Go sideways: Replication (computing)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Oracle NoSQL DatabaseA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A predicate-based caching scheme for client-server database architectures

  Arthur M. Keller, Julie Basu · 1996 · The VLDB Journal The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases · 126 citations

• Intelligent caching and indexing techniques for relational database systems

  Timos K. Sellis · 1988 · Information Systems · 43 citations

• Database Caching Over the Air-Storage

  H. Va Leong · 1997 · The Computer Journal · 31 citations

• Form-based proxy caching for database-backed web sites: keywords and functions

  Qiong Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Wenwei Xue · 2006 · The VLDB Journal · 21 citations

• Enabling dynamic content caching for database-driven web sites

  K. Selçuk Candan, Wen-Syan Li, Qiong Luo · 2001 · ACM SIGMOD Record · 17 citations

• A mobility-aware dynamic database caching scheme for wireless mobile computing and communications

  George Y. Liu, Gerald Q. Maguire · 1996 · Distributed and Parallel Databases · 12 citations

• GreenDB: Energy-Efficient Prefetching and Caching in Database Clusters

  Yi Zhou, Shubbhi Taneja, Chaowei Zhang · 2019 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 11 citations

• Intelligent database caching through the use of page-answers and page-traces

  Nabil Kamel, Roger King · 1992 · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 8 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• An FPGA-Based Performance Analysis of Hardware Caching Techniques for Blockchain Key-Value Database

  Muhammad Faisal Siddiqui, Farman Ali, Muhammad Awais Javed · 2023 · Applied Sciences · 6 citations

• HIGH-PERFORMANCE AT SCALE: UNDERSTANDING DATABASE AND CDN CACHING IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

  Shailin Saraiya · 2025 · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY · 0 citations

• Hardware-Accelerated Caching for Large-Scale AI Model Training: An Intelligent Architecture for Vector Database and Model Inference Optimization

  MADHUKIRAN VADDI · 2025 · Journal of Computer Science and Technology Studies · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Data sufficiency for queries on cacheOded Shmueli · 1996
• 📕Distributed name serversDouglas Brian Terry · 1985
• Client data cachingFranklin, Michael J. · 1996
• Data Management in Mobile Computing (Synthesis Lectures on Mobile and Pervasive Computing)Douglas Terry · 2007

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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