Compliance Without the Tax
Most systems sacrifice 20-40% performance for audit logging. Cachee builds compliance into the storage model.
31ns reads with full audit trail. Zero additional overhead.
Traditional systems bolt compliance on after the fact: synchronous log writes (1-10ms), encryption layers, access control checks, SIEM shipping. The result is a 20-40% performance penalty just to satisfy auditors. Cachee eliminates this tax entirely. Every entry is already signed, fingerprinted, and hash-chained. Compliance starts with a tamper-proof audit trail. Compliance is not a feature you enable. It is the default behavior of the storage model. 31 nanoseconds — with everything an auditor needs, included in every read.
Where the 20-40% Goes
Every compliance requirement adds latency. In traditional systems, these costs compound.
Traditional Compliance Overhead per Operation
Cachee's compliance features are the storage model itself. There is no additional overhead because there is no additional step.
5+ Services vs One Library
Traditional Compliance Read vs Cachee
Six Frameworks. One Data Model.
Cachee's built-in audit chain, PQ signatures, and computation fingerprints address requirements across all six major compliance frameworks without framework-specific configuration.
- Financial data integrity verification
- Internal control over financial reporting
- Tamper-proof transaction history
- Audit trail for all data modifications
- Audit controls (164.312(b))
- Integrity controls (164.312(c))
- Access logging for all PHI
- Encryption of data at rest
- CC6.1 Logical access controls
- CC7.2 System monitoring
- CC8.1 Change management logging
- Continuous monitoring evidence
- AU-2 Auditable events
- AU-3 Audit record content
- AU-6 Audit review and analysis
- Continuous monitoring (ConMon)
- AU.L2-3.3.1 System-level auditing
- AU.L2-3.3.2 Accountability
- SI.L2-3.14.6 Monitor communications
- Cryptographic integrity evidence
- Article 30 Records of processing
- Article 5(1)(f) Integrity & confidentiality
- Article 32 Security of processing
- Data provenance for DPIAs
The same Cachee instance, with no configuration changes, satisfies audit requirements across all six frameworks. Hash-chained entries provide tamper evidence. PQ signatures provide authenticity. Computation fingerprints provide provenance. Audit chains provide accountability.
Run it yourself: brew install cachee && cachee compliance-demo
What Auditors Ask. How Cachee Answers.
| Auditor Question | Traditional Answer | Cachee Answer |
|---|---|---|
| "Prove this data hasn't been modified" | Access control policy (trust us) | SHA3-256 hash chain (verify it) |
| "Show the audit trail for this record" | Grep through log files | AUDITLOG key:record_id (instant) |
| "Who accessed this and when?" | Parse SIEM events | Built into every cache entry |
| "Prove computation was correct" | Cannot prove (re-run?) | Computation fingerprint + 3 PQ sigs |
| "Can your logs be deleted?" | ACLs prevent it (theoretically) | Hash chain breaks on any deletion |
| "Is data encrypted at rest?" | Separate encryption layer | PQ-signed by default, always |
Where Compliance-Ready Infrastructure Matters
The Cost of Traditional Compliance
Compliance infrastructure is expensive — not just in compute overhead, but in engineering time, licensing fees, and operational complexity. Here is what a typical enterprise compliance stack costs:
| Component | Purpose | Annual Cost | Cachee Equivalent |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELK Stack (managed) | Log aggregation | $24K-$120K | Built-in AUDITLOG |
| SIEM (Splunk/Datadog) | Security monitoring | $36K-$500K | Hash-chain integrity |
| Encryption layer | Data at rest | $12K-$60K | PQ-signed by default |
| ACL system | Access control | $6K-$24K | Built into cache entry |
| Log shipper | Transport | $3K-$12K | In-process (no transport) |
| Cachee | All of the above | $0.000005/op | One library |
A typical enterprise spends $81K-$716K annually on compliance infrastructure — separate systems that add latency, complexity, and failure modes. Cachee replaces the entire data-layer compliance stack with one library at a fraction of the cost. And it requires replayable system state for audits and forensics.
The real cost is not the licensing. It is the engineering time spent integrating 5+ systems, maintaining their configurations, debugging their interactions, and preparing evidence for auditors. With Cachee, the evidence is the data itself.
Get Started
brew tap h33ai-postquantum/tap && brew install cachee
cachee init && cachee start
# Every SET is automatically compliant
SET financial:tx_8821 '{"amount":5000,"type":"wire"}' FP compute=aml_check
# Generate compliance report for a specific framework
cachee compliance-report --framework sox --chain main
# Export audit evidence for external auditors
cachee audit export --format json --since 2026-01-01 > audit_evidence.json
There is no "compliance mode" to enable. Every Cachee instance runs with full audit, full signatures, full hash chaining. The compliance features are the storage model — not a bolt-on. This is built on top of verifiable audit infrastructure.
Deep Dives
Explore Verifiable Computation Infrastructure
Every page in the Cachee knowledge base. Proven computation, not cached data.
The category definition. Run computation once, serve forever. →Tamper-Proof Audit Trails
SHA3-256 hash-chained immutable logging. →Cache Attestation
Signed cache entries. Three PQ families per SET. →Verifiable Computation
Prove results without re-execution. →Data Lineage Verification
Prove where your data came from. →Replayable Systems
Reconstruct any state at any point in time.