Monday, November 5, 2012

VMware Gemfire 7 Scales In-Memory Data Grid



Relying on traditional spinning disk-based database platforms is not always what is necessary for modern request deployment. It's a challenge that VMware is aspiring to solve with its latest Gemfire 7.0 release.
With Gemfire, we are focused on enabling the next age group of applications that need an in-memory approach for the data tier, David McJannet, VMware's director of Cloud & request Services, told Database Journal.

Gemfire is a separate in-memory data network technology that can in a few cases replace a traditional database. McJannet announced that as performance demands on applications grow, rising volumes of data are shifting to an in-memory approach.  VMware acquire d the Gemfire  in-memory technology in 2010.



McJannet noted that Gemfire can also be utilized as a distributed caching layer for existing database technology, together with VMware's version of the PostgreSQL database. People desire to do analytics around ever bigger data sets & make decision in actual time," McJannet said. "The traditional approach of storing that all in a database, doing a query & then waiting for the answer, does not match the necessities for modern online applications.


Another key latest aspect in Gemfire 7.0 is native support for JSON. McJannet give details that Gemfire has a rich API that enables a lot of features & functionality. That API however required developers to realize the details of Gemfire's API model.

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