Category Archives: Benchmarks
Terabyte Elastic Cache clusters on Cisco UCS and Amazon EC2
Overview Last week I was working on a new opportunity. The prospect needs to store 1 Terabyte of data in memory to address scalability challenges and were interested in using GigaSpaces. I was tasked with creating a demonstration of this … Continue reading
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Terracotta ehCache vs. GigaSpaces Cache benchmark
Are you Really using the Fastest and Most Scalable Cache with your Application? We are hearing lately reports from several accounts "discovering" that Terracotta ehcache is not the fastest and most scalable cache out there. GigaSpaces local cache actually performs … Continue reading
Possible Impossibility – The Race to Zero Latency
I recently read a book called: "Physics of the Impossible" by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Dr. Kaku lists "Possible Impossibilities" and classifies these into different categories where all these "impossibilities" may happen in the near/distant future. When talking about "zero … Continue reading
mea culpa: “Offheap access is slow?”
Steve Harris has been commenting on dzone about my last post, “BigMemory: Heap Envy.” One of his comments linked to a blog post of his, “Direct Buffer Access Is Slow, Really?,” in which he says that direct access is not slow, and therefore one of my points was invalid.
Well, folks, he’s right, for all intents [...] Continue reading
