At the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Markus Kett presented a database alternative for Java: the in-memory EclipseStore promises faster data processing with lower cloud costs. It stores Java objects as bina ...

Latest version of open source Java In-Memory Data Grid Hazelcast supports entry processing, multi-thread execution, continuous queries and lazy indexing. They have also re-implemented all of the ...

Data grids tend to use key-value stores as embedded objects on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), while in-memory databases are optimized for columnar storage.

Hazelcast today announced the beta release of the latest version of its namesake in-memory data grid, Hazelcast IMDG 3.12. With this release, the company adds new features focused on data integrity, ...

In-memory computing has been maturing quickly over the last three years. It had been used mostly in small-scale databases but is now ready to hit the big time due to changes in the technology and ...

The VoltDB database follows the H-Store design, but implements a fairly limited subset of the SQL language and Java stored procedures for transactions. Adding SQL to the H-store model puts VoltDB into ...

Oracle has released the first update to the TimesTen in-memory database it acquired a few months ago, and plans to promote the product to a broader audience of enterprise customers, it announced ...

When physical memory is scarce, paging causes garbage collection to run an order of magnitude slower than explicit memory management.

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