Cast AI, the leading Application Performance Automation platform, today announced the launch of Database Optimizer (DBO), an innovative approach to caching that improves cloud database performance.
Traditional caching solutions are difficult to manage, often requiring extensive manual work and human-driven decision-making on each query. DBO solves these problems with an Agent that runs a fully autonomous caching layer as a plug-and-play solution that requires zero application changes or manual tuning. DevOps, platform engineers, and cloud database administrators can now simplify operations and eliminate wasteful database spending.
“Autonomous caching is one of the most effective ways to optimize read-heavy workloads, and Cast AI’s approach is brilliantly executed,” said Dekel Shavit, Senior Director, Cloud Engineering, Akamai. “DBO removes the need for manual tuning while delivering real-time performance gains and cost reductions. It’s a strong addition to the Cast AI platform.”
Key Features and Benefits of DBO:
- Simplified optimization: DBO simplifies caching with a turnkey solution, providing actionable insights and immediate performance improvement for databases.
- Instant performance boost: DBO has been trained to analyze and cache any data with repeat patterns. The result is a 10x performance boost: cached data is delivered almost instantly instead of coming from the database.
- Automated database load reduction: Intelligent caching reduces database queries, eliminates the need for read replicas, and enables the downscaling of database resources.
- No-code solution: DBO eliminates the need for application changes, manual cache management, and engineering overhead, making database optimization effortless.
“One of the toughest challenges with database caching—especially in distributed systems like ours—is cache invalidation. But with Cast AI’s DBO, it just works right out of the box. Our workloads are highly cacheable because we separate reads from writes, so integrating with the write channels was straightforward—even in clustering mode,” said Julius á Rógvi Biskopstø, CTO and Co-founder at Flowcore.
“We’re now seeing cache hit rates of 80–90%, which is outstanding. On I/O-bound servers, cutting database hits by 90% has a huge impact—it saves money and significantly improves performance. Our services were already pretty fast, but DBO shaved off an additional 100 milliseconds, which makes a noticeable difference. If you’re thinking about adding a cache, DBO is an easy choice.”
“Databases are one of the most expensive components in the cloud. It was a natural addition to our Application Performance Automation platform. Our DBO agent increases performance and reduces cost by caching any queries for which it detects a repeat pattern. DBO radically simplifies caching, slashes expenses, and requires no changes to how your apps are built,” said Laurent Gil, Co-founder and President at Cast AI. “Application Performance Automation is the future of autonomous computing—high performance, zero overhead.”
