Distributed caches are used to improve the performance and scalability of applications. Typically, a distributed cache is shared by multiple application servers. In a distributed cache, the cached ...

The advent of the emerging field of Big Data brought with it the promise of highly-scalable databases that could handle terabytes of data at a time. As anyone dealing with colossal datasets will ...

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As enterprise computing enters the brave new world of service-oriented architecture (SOA), it becomes more and more important to seek new ways to describe, publish, and discover your services. The Web ...

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Cloud-based applications built with microservices are firehosing log data at DevOps teams. This is where open-source search-and-analytics engine Elasticsearch comes in for many teams. But ...

ScaleOut Software is offering Version 6 of its ScaleOut Product Suite, its distributed caching and in-memory data grid software, introducing breakthrough capabilities “not found in today’s distributed ...

ActiveSpaces, launched last month, acts similarly to a distributed cache, letting systems hold large amounts of real-time data in memory and allowing different applications to access that data very ...

Today’s web, mobile, and IoT applications need to operate at increasingly demanding scale and performance levels to handle thousands to millions of users. Terabytes or petabytes of data.

Ever hear the phrase “clear your cache” and wondered about this voodoo magic? In most situations, people are probably referring to your browser cache so that you can see the latest data or content on ...