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One category of risk that project teams need to ensure they address is business value failure – delivering a product that fails to provide value for the business investor.
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Posted by Floyd Marinescu on Jul 17, 2006
JBoss has released JBoss Cache 1.4 final, their distributed caching product which also includes PojoCache (formerly TreeCacheAOP). The release adds Buddy Replication and Data Gravitation features and also optimizes their RPC marshalling algorithm resulting in 20-50% improved performance and throughpout. JBoss Cache is the technology behind JBoss Application Server's HTTP and EJB session replication. InfoQ spoke to project leads Ben Wang and Manik Surtani to get more information.when you have a local cache+session affinity, you'd still want some replication for failover/high availability, one example being HTTP sessions. This is where buddy replication comes in, improving efficiency so you don't end up replicating your entire state across the cluster - just to nominated backup nodes.Buddy Replication is an important feature for the project to gain in order for it to become suitable for larger deployments where inter-node communications overhead must be minimized. Other commercial solutions such as Tangosol or IBM's ObjectGrid have had this for some time. Terracotta doesn't use/need a buddy system since data is replicated to a central cache server.
we've used this to build an RPC layer, wich we then use to replicate data across a cluster. Using JGroups, we get a number of things for free, including group membership and organisation, guaranteed message delivery, and network stack tuning (switching between TCP and UDP, tunnelling through firewalls if necessary, etc).PojoCache is a componeont of JBoss Cache which allows you to avoid interacting with the cache with a Map interface after update operations; instead, an object instance is added to the Cache with one initial PUT, and field-level changes to the object are intercepted transparently with aspects and then distributed across the cluster.
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GigaSpaces provides similar capabilities with a richer API based on JavaSpaces API (GigaSpaces also provides a simple Map API). But can also provide a full partitioned solution even if the session affinity isn't saved.
Guy korland
GigaSpaces: Write Once Scale Anywhere
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Brian E
Buddy Replication is an important feature for the project to gain in order for it to become suitable for larger deployments where inter-node communications overhead must be minimized. Other commercial solutions such as Tangosol [..] have had this for some time.
Tangosol Coherence does not use buddy replication. With "n" servers, it dynamically organizes a server mesh (partitioned as n x n, and dynamically load-balanced as n increases) that has a configurable depth (e.g. 3 for n plus 2 failover scenarios) that can be specified on a data set by data set basis.
To compare:
This technologoy was introduced by Tangosol in June of 2002, and serves as the fundamental basis for much of the state-of-the-art in data grids today.
Peace,
Cameron Purdy
Tangosol Coherence: The Java Data Grid
I participated in a panel discussion with Floyd and Rod Johnson. At some point during the discussion Rod felt it necessary to interrupt someone and interjected, "Spring, Spring, Spring, Spring, Spring." He was clearly satirizing all the vendor-shpiel. Agree that when we as vendors feel embarrased, it has gone too far. I can't get "Spring, Spring, Spring" out of my head every time I see something like this. Thanks for raising a voice of sanity, Brian!
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Brian
This post mention some of the Caching solutions out there doing and solving similar problems. Other commercial solutions such as..
From some reason the author missed GigaSpaces which is widely in the industry hence the reason for this comment. I would also mention Gemstone as another known caching product that should have been part of this list.
Just an FYI one of the biggest phone launches (Can't be too specific at this stage) in Europe this weekend is based on a combination of JBoss/GigaSpaces. The main reason that users choose this combo is scalability.
Nati S.
GigaSpaces
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