Infinispan

Infinispan is a distributed cache and key–value NoSQL in-memory database developed by Red Hat. Java applications can embed it as library, use it as a service in WildFly or any non-java applications can use it, as remote service through TCP/IP.

History

Infinispan is the successor of JBoss Cache. The project was announced in 2009.

Features

• Transactions
• MapReduce
• Support for LRU and LIRS eviction algorithms
• Through pluggable architecture, infinispan is able to persist data to filesystem, relational databases with JDBC, LevelDB, NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Apache Cassandra or HBase and others.

Usage

Typical use-cases for Infinispan include:

• Distributed cache, often in front of a database
• Storage for temporal data, like web sessions
• In-memory data processing and analytics
• Cross-JVM communication and shared storage
• MapReduce Implementation in the In-Memory Data Grid.
• Embedding storing (Vector Search)

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
• Hazelcast
• Apache Ignite
• GridGain
• Java Transaction API
• Redis

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