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Tangosol Coherence Data Grid Adds Enhanced Spring Support
Tangosol has announced Coherence Data Grid for Spring which simplifies integration between Spring and the Coherence Data Grid. Coherence Data Grid for Spring will feature a new type of Spring component, the Spring Data Grid Bean. Spring Beans may be automatically and transparently managed in highly available data grids built on top of Coherence.
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Terracotta open sources JVM clustering
Terracotta today open sourced their JVM clustering solution under MPL-based license. Terracotta turns single-node, multi-threaded apps into distributed multi-node apps with no code changes. Also open sourced are customizations for clustering Spring Application contexts and HTTPSessions. The VC-backed Terracotta is switching from a commercial license model to a service & support model.
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Clustering Lucene with TerraCotta
Engineers at TerraCotta have detailed a new way to cluster Lucene, the popular text search library from Apache. Their method involves implementing the Lucene RAMDirectory interface and using TerraCotta DSO to share the RAMDirectory across JVMs.
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Coherence 3.2 Enhances Clustered Data Client and Grid Computing Support
Tangosol, Inc. is releasing version 3.2 of the Coherence Data Grid Solution Set in October. Coherence provides data replication, partitioning, caching, and grid computing functionality across a cluster of computers. This release adds three new data client options and such features as enhanced TCP/IP support, Websphere 6.0 support and interoperability for .NET and C++.
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Terracotta Releases Clustering for Spring
Terracotta, Inc. recently released their new Terracotta for Spring product which provides high-availability and high performance clustering to applications written using the Spring framework. Terracotta for Spring integrates at the configuration file level reducing the need for developers to make changes to their code to enable clustering support.
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Gemstone Releases GemFire 5.0 Enterprise Data Fabric
GemStone Systems has introduced GemFire Enterprise 5.0 an enterprise data fabric for JEE, grid, and SOA applications. GemFire supports massive data loads while providing scalability, data integrity, and fail over. Version 5.0 adds features such as enhanced data partitioning and caching event models.
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JBoss Cache 1.4 Released; Adds Buddy Replication
JBoss has released JBoss Cache 1.4 final, their distributed caching product which also includes PojoCache (formely 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.
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Article: A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails
Rails performance expert Dr. Stefan Kaes takes a look at the most common performance issues in your Rails applications and what to do about them. Advice is given regarding benchmarking, choosing a session container, caching results of expensive computations, optimizing database queries and working effectively with view helpers.
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Terracotta releases free 4 node Tomcat Session Clustering
JVM clustering vendor Terracotta has released for free use their Terracotta Sessions for Tomcat. The product is based on their distributed shared objects (DSO) product which uses a hub and spoke architecture and can synchronize changes across nodes at the field level (instead of serialization). The license allows projects with up to 4 nodes in their cluster to use it for free.