Performance Near Cache Near Cache Expiration

Expiration means the eviction of expired records. A record is expired:

• if it is not touched (accessed/read) for max-idle-seconds
• time-to-live-seconds passed since it is put to Near Cache

The actual expiration is performed in two cases:

• When a record is accessed: it is checked if the record is expired or not. If it is expired, it is evicted and null is returned as the value to the caller.
• In the background: there is an expiration task that periodically (currently 5 seconds) scans records and evicts the expired records.