Category Archives: Java

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new and modified best practices

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Shay Hassidim

Our best practices wiki is growing rapidly and full with good and useful material. Here are few new best practices added lately: - Finding Partition Load – routing data based on partition load. - Even Data Distribution – simple example explains how to evenly partition … Continue reading →

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mea culpa: “Offheap access is slow?”

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Joe Ottinger

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 →

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BigMemory: Heap Envy

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Joe Ottinger

Terracotta has announced the availability of BigMemory, which provides a large offheap cache through their Ehcache project. It is designed to avoid the GC impact caused by massive heaps in Java, at a license cost of $500 per GB per year, if I have my figures right.
The Reason We’re Here
First, let’s understand the reason BigMemory [...] Continue reading →

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New Article: “Considering Datastores.”

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Joe Ottinger

I just published “Considering Datastores” in the “articles” section of my blog, a piece discussing various data storage mechanisms and their strengths and weaknesses compared to each other. Continue reading →

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GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 being released Wednesday!

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Joe Ottinger
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