This document discusses data caching and its benefits. Caching stores frequently accessed data in a location that has faster access time than the main storage. This provides spatial, temporal, and concurrency optimizations. It discusses where data is cached, from L1 cache to remote networks. Latency numbers are provided to show access times from different storage levels. Issues like cache coherence, eviction policies, and write policies are also covered. The document ends by discussing caching approaches in the BBOX application, including application caching, Hibernate caching, and query caching.