Databooks at the client already allow for the caching of metadata to minimize communication with the server. However, server-side storage updates metadata each time data is accessed. During productive use, this is unnecessary overhead that we would prefer to avoid.

Global metadata caching is configured in the server´s configuration file, config.xml, using the following option:

<!-- ON | OFF -->
<globalmetadatacache>ON</globalmetadatacache>

If any metadata is modified while this option is activated, either the application server has to be restarted, or the application context has to be updated, as the cache is static.