This document discusses using Tachyon as a cache layer to accelerate big data analytics workloads at Baidu. It describes how Tachyon provides a 30x speedup over directly accessing remote storage by serving data from an in-memory cache. The document outlines Baidu's architecture using Tachyon with Spark SQL, discusses problems encountered in production and their solutions, and proposes advanced features like tiered storage to expand Tachyon's caching capacity.