Ability to configure caching behaviour

[elmarti]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently caching is very simple:

1. open collection
2. store the collection in a class field

However there are situations where:

1. We don't need to hydrate the cache upon creating the collection
2. We may want to follow a caching strategy (e.g. LRU)

Describe the solution you'd like
The ability to configure caching upon initialising the collection