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		pytrin on Aug 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PhalconPHP - High Perf PHP Framework as a C Extens... Cache is a not a solve-all solution. It is useful only for commonly used data, otherwise you just transfer the database problem to a caching problem.

prodigal_erik on Aug 25, 2012 [–]

If you squint, every database problem is a caching problem. The only reason we store the relations in their up-to-date form is that it's too expensive to continually replay the transaction log from the beginning of time.

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