The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for automatic management of data access acceleration in a computer system executing a plurality of clients. The method includes: receiving data access commands from two or more clients to access data in objects identified by the data access commands; and processing the data access commands to update access history information for portions of the objects identified by the data access commands. The method further includes: in accordance with the access history information, automatically identifying and marking for acceleration the portions of the objects identified by the data access commands that satisfy an access based data acceleration policy; and accelerating the object portions marked for acceleration, including accelerating data writes and data reads of the object portions to and from the persistent cache, where the persistent cache is shared by the two or more clients.