CSQL cache for Postgres

Why CSQL cache?

• A generic database platform to cache frequently
accessed tables from a back end database.
• 100X faster access for cached tables
• Application transparent caching
• Distributed caching for cluster
• Flexible deployment options
• Standard Support: JDBC, ODBC, SQL
• Automatic Fail over to target database
 Middle tier cache
• CSQL cache acts as a middle tier cache
for any target database
• a high performance, bi-directional
updateable data-caching component that
sits between the cluster application
process and back-end data sources to
provide high throughput to the application.
 Caching options
• Uni-Directional and Bi-Directional updates
- Unidirectional update means all updates on
cached tables will be automatically propagated to target
database.
- Bi-directional caching in which even direct updates
on target database are propagated to CSQL cache
automatically .
• Synchronous and Asynchronous update propagation
-in synchronous mode the update operation is
effected on both the cache and the target database at
the same time.
- in asynchronous mode updates are delayed to the
target database.
 How to configure CSQL to cache
Postgres?
Following five parameters in csql.conf file needs to be set
• CACHE_TABLE = true
• DSN = psql
- set to the data source name of the target ODBC
driver specified in the odbc.ini file. Here it is ‘psql ‘
• TABLE_CONFIG_FILE = tmp/csql/csqltable.conf
- contains the complete path to the file which holds
the cache table information.
• ENABLE_BIDIRECTIONAL_CACHE = true
• CACHE_RECEIVER_WAIT_SECS = 10
- set to interval it waits if there are no update logs
from the target database.
 Step-by-Step configuration
• Configure Postgres
• Configure postgres ODBC driver
• Create required tables in Postgres using
ODBC driver
• Start CSQL server
• Cache tables from postgres
• Use gateway connection to retrieve non-
cached tables
 Configuring Postgres
• Install ‘UnixODBC’ package
• Install Postgres under ‘ /usr/local/pgsql ‘
• login with user name ‘ postgres ‘ and start
the server using the following commands.
$export PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data

$ /user/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster
/tmp/postgreslog 2>postgreslog &
Configuring Postgres ODBC driver
• Set up the files “etc/odbcinst.ini“‘ and “
etc/odbc.ini“
 Creating tables in Postgres
• Connect to Postgres server using
$ isql psql

• Create tables in Postgres using

SQL> create table t1 ( f1 int, f2 char(10),primary key(f1));
SQL> create table t2 ( f1 int, f2 char(10),primary
key(f1));
SQL> create table t3 ( f1 int, f2 char(10),primary key(f1));

• Insert records
SQL>INSERT INTO t1 (f1, f2) values (100, ‘rama’);
SQL>INSERT INTO t2 (f1, f2) values (200, 2000);
SQL>INSERT INTO t3 (f1, f2) values (300, 3000);
SQL>quit;
 Cache the tables from Postgres
• Start csqlserver
$ csqlserver
• Cache some entire tables from Postgres using
$ cachetable -t t1
$ cachetable -t t2
• Cache specific records or fields using
$cachetable -t t1 -c “f1=100?
$ cachetable -t t2 -f “f2?

• To drop cached tables use

$cachetable -t -u
• To retrive information on cached table use
$ cachetable -S
• To retrive information on non-cached table run csql tool with –g
option.
 Where to use?
• For performance critical applications in
Industries such as Telecom, process
control, airline reservation, stock market,
health care etc.,
• wide variety of applications ranging from
single-user systems to enterprise-wide
multiserver installations with tens of
thousands of concurrent users.
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