Cache Mode FAQs - Infinispan 5.2

What is the difference between a replicated cache and a distributed cache?
Does DIST support both synchronous and asynchronous communications?
I have caches configured with asynchronous replication or distribution, but these caches appear to be behaving synchronously (waiting for responses), what is going on?
I notice that when using DIST, the cache does a remote get before a write command. Why is this?
I use a clustered cache. I want the guarantees of synchronous replication with the parallelism of asynchronous replication. What can I do?
Is buddy replication supported?
What is the L1 cache?
What consistency guarantees do I have with different Asynchronous processing settings ?