Infinispan's GridFileSystem - An In-Memory Grid File System

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Infinispan is an open source data grid platform that makes use of distributing state across nodes in a cluster. GridFileSystem is a new, experimental API that exposes an Infinispan-backed data grid as a file system. In this article, authors discuss distributed mode of Infinispan and how GridFS framework manages data caching by chunking up data using a new streaming API and storing them in a grid.

•  By  Bela Ban and Manik Surtani on Jun 25, 2010,
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