Caching at the Web Scale

Summary: Survey of distributed in-memory caching at web scale, handling billions of lookups and updates with low latency and high availability. Covers algorithmic and architectural approaches atop persistent storage and open questions on caching consistency, placement, and failover for read-heavy, globally distributed workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11696
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.3483178e-05
Overall Rank: 8,933 | 38.72%
DOI: 10.14778/3137765.3137831

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Authors

1. Victor Zakhary (University of California Santa Barbara)
2. Divyakant Agrawal (University of California Santa Barbara)
3. Amr El Abbadi (University of California Santa Barbara)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zakhary_vldb17,
        title = {{Caching at the Web Scale}},
        author = {Zakhary, Victor and Agrawal, Divyakant and Abbadi, Amr El},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2002},
        doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137831},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137831},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,894	Locality-Aware Cache Replacement Policy for Graph Traversals	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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