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 serverĀ“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.