memory-grid - High Scalability

Paper

Paper: Log-structured Memory for DRAM-based Storage - High Memory Utilization Plus High Performance

Most every programmer who gets sucked into deep performance analysis for long running processes eventually realizes memory allocation is the heart of evil at the center of many of their problems. So you replace malloc with something less worse. Or you tune your garbage collector like a fine ukulele. But

scalabilty

Big Data Application Platform

It's time to think of the architecture and application platforms surrounding "Big Data" databases. Big Data is often centered around new database technologies mostly from the emerging NoSQL world. The main challenge that these databases solve is how to handle massive amount of data at a

Product

Paper: The Case for RAMClouds: Scalable High-Performance Storage Entirely in DRAM

Stanford Info Lab is taking pains to document a direction we've been moving for a while now, using RAM not just as a cache, but as the primary storage medium. Many quality products have built on this model. Even if the vision isn't radical, the paper

Product

Product: Infinispan - Open Source Data Grid

Infinispan is a highly scalable, open source licensed data grid platform in the style of GigaSpaces and Oracle Coherence. From their website: The purpose of Infinispan is to expose a data structure that is highly concurrent, designed ground-up to make the most of modern multi-processor/multi-core architectures while at the

Example

Squarespace Architecture - A Grid Handles Hundreds of Millions of Requests a Month

I first heard an enthusiastic endorsement of Squarespace streaming from the ubiquitous Leo Laporte on one of his many Twit Live shows. Squarespace as a fully hosted, completely managed environment for creating and maintaining a website, blog or portfolio was of interest to me because they promise scalability and this

Oracle

Data grid comparison: Oracle Coherence vs Gigaspaces XAP

A short summary of differences between Oracle Coherence and GigaSpaces XAP.

memory-grid

Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing?

We are on the edge of two potent technological changes: Clouds and Memory Based Architectures. This evolution will rip open a chasm where new players can enter and prosper. Google is the master of disk. You can't beat them at a game they perfected. Disk based databases like

Strategy

Handle 1 Billion Events Per Day Using a Memory Grid

Moshe Kaplan of RockeTier shows the life cycle of an affiliate marketing system that starts off as a cub handling one million events per day and ends up a lion handling 200 million to even one billion events per day. The resulting system uses ten commodity servers at a cost