Welcome to the Net.DistributedFileStoreCache documentation

This library provides a .NET distributed cache that has two excellent features

• It can get cache values blistering fast –
  • It only takes ~25 ns. to Get one entry in a cache containing 10,000 entries.
  • It has methods called GetAllKeyValues \ GetAllKeyValues that return a dictionary with ALL 10,000 entries cache values in ~85 ns.
• It uses a json file as the shared resource which makes it really easy to setup, and you don't need to setup / pay for a database for your cache.

The downsides are:

• It’s slower than database caches when adding a new cache value. For instance, to Set a cache value to an existing 100 cache values takes ~1.5 ms., while a database would normally execute a Set in less than one millisecond. And it gets worse as the cache gets bigger - see the Performance Figures in the README file for the detailed.
• It doesn't doesn’t implement the IDistributedCache’s SlidingExpiration feature, because that would make the read performance slow. But it does support the two AbsoluteExpiration versions.

The FileStore cache library has four versions of the code, with the big difference being the type of the value stored in the cache.