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Infinispan

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Developer(s)
  
Red Hat

Platform
  
Platform independent

Website
  
infinispan.org

Written in
  
Java

Type
  
Data Grid

License
  
Apache Software License 2.0

Infinispan is a distributed cache and key-value NoSQL data store software developed by Red Hat. Java applications can embed it as library, use it as a service in WildFly or any non-java applications can use it as remote service through TCP/IP.

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History

Infinispan is the successor of JBoss Cache. The project was announced in 2009.

Features

  • Transactions
  • MapReduce
  • Support for LRU and LIRS eviction algorithms
  • Through plugable architecture, infinispan is able to persist data to filesystem, relational databases with JDBC, LevelDB, NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Apache Cassandra or HBase and others.

    • Usage

    Typical use-cases for Infinispan include:

  • Distributed cache, often in front of a database
  • Storage for temporal data, like web sessions
  • In-memory data processing and analytics
  • Cross-JVM communication and shared storage
  • MapReduce Implementation in the In-Memory Data Grid.

    • Infinispan is also used in academia and research as a framework for distributed execution and storage.

  • Cloud2Sim leverages Infinispan for its distributed execution of MapReduce workflows and simulations.
  • MEDIator data sharing synchronization platform for medical image archives leverages Infinispan as its distributed in-memory storage, as well as distributed execution framework.
  • Cassowary uses Infinispan to store the context information in-memory, in order to provide the middleware platform for context-aware smart buildings.

    • References

    Infinispan Wikipedia
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