# Caching queries (/docs/accelerate/caching)

Learn everything you need to know to use Accelerate's global database caching

Location: Accelerate > Caching queries

Prisma Accelerate provides global caching for read queries using TTL, Stale-While-Revalidate (SWR), or a combination of both. It works with your own database once you enable Accelerate in the [Prisma Data Platform](https://console.prisma.io?utm_source=docs) and [configure it with your database](/guides/introduction-accelerate-getting-started). Prisma Postgres has no query cache of its own: a Prisma Postgres database uses this cache only through a hosted Accelerate connection. Accelerate, including those connections, will be retired on December 1, 2026; see [Connect to Prisma Postgres without Accelerate](/guides/migrating-off-accelerate-postgres-database-switch-from-accelerate).

## Related pages

- [`Compare Accelerate`](/guides/features-compare): Learn how Prisma Accelerate compares to other connection poolers like pgbouncer
- [`Connection Pooling`](/guides/features-connection-pooling): Learn about everything you need to know to use Accelerate's connection pooling
- [`Evaluating`](/guides/features-evaluating): Learn about evaluating Prisma Accelerate
- [`Examples`](/guides/features-examples): Check out ready-to-run examples for Prisma Accelerate
- [`Getting started`](/guides/introduction-accelerate-getting-started): Learn how to get up and running with Prisma Accelerate

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