sequelize-transparent-cache

Simple to use and universal cache layer for Sequelize.

• Abstract: does not depends on underlying database, or cache specific
• Transparent: objects returned from cache are regular Sequelize instances with all your methods
• Explicit: all calls to cache comes through cache() method
• Lightweight: zero additional dependencies

Installation

Install sequelize-transparent-cache itself:

npm install --save sequelize-transparent-cache

Find and install appropriate adaptor for your cache system, see "Available adaptors" section below. In this example we will use ioredis

npm install --save sequelize-transparent-cache-ioredis

Example usage

const Redis = require('ioredis')
const redis = new Redis()
 
const RedisAdaptor = require('sequelize-transparent-cache-ioredis')
const redisAdaptor = new RedisAdaptor({
  client: redis,
  namespace: 'model',
  lifetime: 60 * 60
})
 
const sequelizeCache = require('sequelize-transparent-cache')
const { withCache } = sequelizeCache(redisAdaptor)
 
const Sequelize = require('sequelize')
const sequelize = new Sequelize('database', 'user', 'password', {
  dialect: 'mysql',
  host: 'localhost',
  port: 3306
})
 
// Register and wrap your models:
// withCache() will add cache() methods to all models and instances in sequelize v4
const User = withCache(sequelize.import('./models/user'))
 
await sequelize.sync()
 
// Cache result of arbitrary query - requires cache key
await User.cache('active-users').findAll({
  where: {
    status: 'ACTIVE'
  }
})
 
// Create user in db and in cache
await User.cache().create({
  id: 1,
  name: 'Daniel'
})
 
// Load user from cache
const user = await User.cache().findByPk(1);
 
// Update in db and cache
await user.cache().update({
  name: 'Vikki'
})
 

Look for all examples applications in examples folder.

• Usage with memcached
• Usage with ioredis

Methods

Object returned by cache() call contains wrappers for limited subset of sequelize model or instance methods.

Instance:

• save()
• update()
• destroy()
• reload()

Model:

• Automatic cache methods - does not require cache key: cache()
  • create()
  • findByPk()
  • upsert() - EXPERIMENTAL
  • insertOrUpdate() - EXPERIMENTAL
• Manual cache methods - require cache key: cache(key)
  • findAll()
  • findOne()
  • clear() - remove data associated with key from cache

In addition, both objects will contain client() method to get cache adaptor.

Available adaptors

• memcached
• memcache-plus
• ioredis
• variable

You can easy write your own adaptor. Each adaptor must implement 3 methods:

• get(path: Array<string>): Promise<object>
• set(path: Array<string>, value: object): Promise<void>
• del(path: Array<string>): Promise<void>

Checkout existed adaptors for reference implementation.