Github user dhatchayani commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/2134#discussion_r181629972
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core/src/main/java/org/apache/carbondata/core/datamap/dev/CacheableDataMap.java
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+package org.apache.carbondata.core.datamap.dev;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.carbondata.core.datamap.DataMapDistributable;
+import org.apache.carbondata.core.memory.MemoryException;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for data map caching
+ */
+public interface CacheableDataMap {
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BlockletDataMap is already cached. As our cache is of closed structure,
this is exposed to put the cacheable entry to cache.
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