Hi. I've been using SysCache as the caching strategy. We are toying with the client the idea to use clustered architecture. This should be no problem since IIS supports this.

What I'm not sure if the cache will support distributed locking when the cache is set to read-write.

Thanks for any help...

SysCache is a thin wrapper around the HttpRuntime.Cache object. If the HttpRuntime.Cache can support clustering, I am not aware of it. If it is, that would let me drop the distributed(clustered) cache I'm working on.

k-dub,

could you please provide some more information about the distributed cache you are working on? Most of our application are multiuser and this sounds really interesting.

greetings,
ernst.

I'm shooting for something like JBossCache. I intend to start with the distribution feature, then transactionality and AOP if needed. I have it mostly done, except the communication between instances. If anyone knows of a working, reliable and LGPL-compatible Multicast DNS library for .NET, please contact me.

HttpRuntime cache does not support clustering. We found and tested 2 distributed cache solutions...
http://www.gigaspaces.com/
and
http://www.alachisoft.com/

Both work great... gigaspaces solution is java based, so there was some noticeable interop overhead.... alachisoft solution is pure .net so we went with them.

k-dub,

JBossCache is by no means a small project. Are you able to tackle the port alone, or do you plan on only supporting part of the features?

Regards,
Cris

As stated above, I hope to create a distributed cache with multicastDNS node registration. What's lacking is multicastDNS for .NET.