In the Blogs

"GigaSpaces 7.1.1 will be released on June 16th, with the typical set of bug fixes, although it will include a significant new feature: memcached support.  emcached is a distributed cache, implemented initially by LiveJournal. It is interacted with over TCP sockets, providing a set of sixteen commands - mostly variants of read/write operations, including some asynchronous write operations, which can be tangibly faster.."

"XAP 7.1 is the world's first middleware platform with built-in multi-tenancy. Not only does it significantly simplify development, but it also provides better isolation among multiple users and independent life cycle management for each tenant. The Elastic Data Grid offers one simple parameter defining the isolation level, allowing a variety of configurations such as allocating a dedicated machine per application, allowing multiple instances of the application to share the same resources while isolating others, or sharing everything among everyone.

"GigaSpaces have released XAP version 7.1.  XAP is an application platform with a built-in In-Memory Data Grid. This Data Grid delivers an in-memory cache and a distributed cache.

 With this release, the SQL query facility can now query and order data from nested objects, and order and group results by those nested fields. XAP also features a new Elastic Middleware Administration API, which allows the developer to deploy applications and data grids into a GigaSpace cluster; and a Web Management console which allows the developer to administer the cluster from anywhere".

"In his latest blog, Joe Ottinger discusses a neat technology preview known as the Elastic API, or more correctly, the Elastic Middleware Administration API.

"It's a way to deploy applications and data grids into a your cluster. Basically, you come up with an acceptable service level for your application, hand it to the Elastic API, and the cluster will assure you that your service levels are met."

”The idea of ‘NoSQL’ started out in a bit of a negative way. But now people tend to mean ‘Not Only SQL’ rather than just ‘NoSQL.’ That is the discussion I am seeing,” said distributed computing veteran Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces.

With long experience in the type of applications that require impressive scaling, Shalom is in a unique position to view emerging data architectures for the cloud. He sees scaling issues and RDB issues driving the push to NoSQL – or, Not Only SQL."

GigaSpaces is mentioned in the new releases section of the high scalability links: "GigaSpaces XAP 7.1. Adds Elastic Middleware Administration API, a way to deploy applications and data grids into a GigaSpace cluster."

"Developing applications that can take best advantage of multiple processors or cores has been quite a challenge for most developers. This can be attributed to several things including the developer’s lack of experience with architectures designed for parallel execution. This typically means that commercial applications are not set up to make best use of today’s multi-core systems, local clusters of systems or cloud offerings allowing an application to scale by requesting additional resources as needed. This is exactly the problem set that Gigaspaces has targeted.

"Recently one of our clients asked to make a distributed application that can be scaled and managed easily and cost effectively. So we evaluated JavaSpaces, a Space Based Architecture concept, and one of its commercial implementation GigaSpaces for the purpose. In this post I will try to describe in brief what the Space based Architecture approach is all about."

"GigaSpaces XAP is a distributed application server with an in-memory data grid. GigaSpaces started off as a commercial, clustered JavaSpaces implementation, then expanded to include in memory data grid capabilities such as local caching, eviction and query support. Further down the line, GigaSpaces introduced Space based architecture as a broader solution for scalability and low latency of enterprise applications. In the core of the space based architecture lays an extended, lightweight Spring container that packages middleware functionality such as data storage and messaging.

this post quotes Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces CTO, when reffering NT/e's CloudTran - a middleware product that brings the Cloud into the mainstream as an application platform for Java. CloudTran builds on GigaSpaces XAP platform, providing cloud transactions to SQL and NoSQL data stores.