Infinispan is a
distributed Distribution may refer to:
Mathematics
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*Probability distribution, the probability of a particular value or value range of a varia ...
cache
Cache, caching, or caché may refer to:
Places United States
* Cache, Idaho, an unincorporated community
* Cache, Illinois, an unincorporated community
* Cache, Oklahoma, a city in Comanche County
* Cache, Utah, Cache County, Utah
* Cache County ...
and key-value
NoSQL
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data store software developed by
Red Hat
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Red Hat has become ass ...
.
Java
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applications can embed it as
library
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, use it as a service in
WildFly
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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 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (or JBoss EAP) is a subscription-based/ open-source Java EE-based application server runtime platform used for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services devel ...
. The project was announced in 2009.
Features
* Transactions
*
MapReduce
MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating big data sets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster.
A MapReduce program is composed of a ''map'' procedure, which performs filtering ...
* Support for
LRU and
LIRS eviction algorithms
* Through pluggable architecture, infinispan is able to persist data to filesystem,
relational databases
A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relatio ...
with
JDBC
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application programming interface (API) for the programming language Java, which defines how a client may access a database. It is a Java-based data access technology used for Java database connectivity. I ...
,
LevelDB
LevelDB is an open-source on-disk key-value store written by Google fellows Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. Inspired by Bigtable, LevelDB is hosted on GitHub under the New BSD License and has been ported to a variety of Unix-based systems, ma ...
, NoSQL databases like
MongoDB
MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and licensed under the Serve ...
,
Apache Cassandra
Cassandra is a free and open-source, distributed, wide-column store, NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassand ...
or
HBase
HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File Sys ...
and others.
Usage
Typical use-cases for Infinispan include:
*
Distributed cache
In computing, a distributed cache is an extension of the traditional concept of cache used in a single locale. A distributed cache may span multiple servers so that it can grow in size and in transactional capacity. It is mainly used to store appl ...
, often in front of a
database
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases sp ...
* Storage for temporal data, like web
sessions
* In-memory
data processing
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Data processing is a form of ''information processing'', which is the modification (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an ...
and
analytics
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* Cross-
JVM
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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.
See also
*
Ehcache
Ehcache ( ) is an open source Java distributed cache for general-purpose caching, Java EE and . Ehcache is available under an Apache open source license.
Ehcache was developed by Greg Luck starting in 2003. In 2009, the project was purchased b ...
*
Hazelcast
In computing, Hazelcast IMDG is an open source in-memory data grid based on Java. It is also the name of the company developing the product. The Hazelcast company is funded by venture capital and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
In a H ...
*
Java Transaction API
The Jakarta Transactions (JTA; formerly Java Transaction API), one of the Jakarta EE APIs, enables distributed transactions to be done across multiple X/Open XA resources in a Java environment. JTA was a specification developed under the Java Commu ...
References
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Cache (computing)
Free memory management software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Cross-platform free software
Red Hat software