The SessionFactory of Hibernate can hold an optional level-2 cache, which can improve the persistence access performance of Hibernate. Hibernate has the following attributes about level-2 Cache.
Hibernate. cache. provider_class: This attribute is used to set the Class Name of the second-level cache CacheProvider.
Hibernate. cache. use_minimal_puts: optimizes the level-2 cache at the cost of frequent read operations to minimize write operations. In Hibernate 3, this setting is very useful for cluster caching. It is enabled by default for implementation of cluster caching.
Hibernate. cache. use_query_cache: sets whether to allow querying the cache. Some queries still need to be explicitly set to cache.
Hibernate. cache. use_second_level_cache: Used to set whether second-level cache is enabled. This attribute completely disables second-level cache. Secondary cache is enabled by default for persistence classes specified in the ing file.
Hibernate. cache. query_cache_factory: sets the Class Name of the query cache factory. The query cache factory must implement the QueryCache interface. The default value of this attribute is the built-in StandardQueryCache.
Hibernate. cache. region_prefix: Set the prefix of the second-level cache zone name.
Hibernate. cache. use_structured_entries: Used to set whether to force Hibernate to store data in a second-level cache in a readable format.