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In-memory databases: Use a standard product, or roll your own?

Here are a few questions I would like to ask the community:As memory gets cheaper, more and more application datasets can now be kept fully in memory, and just have changes flushed to disk. No reads from disk (except at startup) - only writes. Some of the...

2 replies - 3128 views - 09/07/11 by Jakob Jenkov in News

Scalable System Design

Building scalable system is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Mainly because more and more people are using computer these days, both the transaction volume and their performance expectation has grown tremendously.This one covers general considerations....

2 replies - 12215 views - 04/08/11 by Ricky Ho in News

Infinispan for the Power-user: Cache Modes

This is the second part of an in-depth series of articles on Infinispan.  In this article I'd like to talk about Infinispan's different cache modes, and why you'd use one over the other. Read the other parts in this series:

6 replies - 13911 views - 03/30/10 by Manik Surtani in Articles

Infinispan for the Power-user: Remoting

As a follow-up to an earlier article introducing Infinispan, which was published on DZone some months back, I'm starting a series of “Power User” articles – a series of short, focused articles on specific sub-sections of Infinispan, for those who want...

0 replies - 9807 views - 02/26/10 by Manik Surtani in Articles

The Importance of Distributed Caching

Over the past year we've seen more and more articles here on JavaLobby about distributed caching. Terracotta, in particular, have been at the forefront of many exciting announcements in this domain. I was lucky enough to have the chance to talk to Alex...

0 replies - 6632 views - 11/16/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Using SelfPopulatingCache in Ehcache

Often you can notice that Ehcache is used mostly like tool that implements highly configurable maps. Sometimes developer configure time-to-live properties, sometimes he or she is making use of disk-store functionality, but you can rarely meet someone who has...

0 replies - 6229 views - 09/02/09 by Mikhail Kolesnik in News

Terracotta acquires Ehcache

Terracotta today announced the purchase of privately-held Ehcache, a Java caching solution that ships as a component within many other Java products including Hibernate ORM, Spring Framework, Alfresco CMS and Liferay portal.  Terracotta clusters JVMs...

0 replies - 6017 views - 08/18/09 by Justin Sargent in News

Caching, Parallelism and Scalability

When your boss asks you to rewrite your application to be more performant and handle greater throughput, what do you do? Once upon a time, when Moore’s Law held steady, all you had to do was to go drink a soy latte, play some Doom, twiddle your thumbs for...

1 replies - 27151 views - 09/18/08 by Manik Surtani in Articles