cache Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:51:16 In computer science, a small amount of storage used to store recently used elements of a larger amount of storage in the hope that the time to access a data element is reduced. The two rules in computer science: 1) If too slow, use caching 2) For flexibility/utilization, use indirection Wed Aug 09 2000 at 19:20:52 Cache is also the product name for an object-oriented database system produced by Intersystems Corp. It runs on Wintel, various flavors of Unix and more...it is notable for being fully object oriented, as opposed to an RDBMS. SQL users need not apply. :-)