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What’s new in XAP 8.0?

Continuous Scaling

“Continuous Scaling” shortens the cycle between new feature development and production, and maintains business continuity during application changes. Continuous scaling enables rolling upgrades, continuous deployment, quick introduction of complex features, and real-time changes to the applications data model, business logic, or even underlying platform with zero downtime. Your business can immediately react to market demands without worrying about costly downtime.

Same Data, Any API

XAP 8.0 promotes openness and interoperability, supporting all common interfaces for accessing data, such as Memcached, JPA, JMS, Document, and a native object-oriented API. You can choose the best API for the case at hand, and be able to operate on the same data regardless of the APIs you have chosen. This significantly decreases the learning curve for adopting XAP, as organizations can use their existing knowledge base to embrace new technologies.

Feature Highlights


Schema-Free Document API

Quickly implement new business requirements without ever taking down your application
Upgrade your application’s data model on the fly, without costly maintenance windows by adding and removing fields on the fly, on a per-instance basis

JPA Support

Decrease developer learning curves and leverage your existing skill sets
Unleash the power scalability of the GigaSpaces data grid with the industry standard data access API. Ideal for project migrating away from JEE that already use JPA

Elastic Management for All Processing Unit Types

Maintain business continuity during app upgrades; Easier API and system management, for reduced development and administration costs
The Elastic Service Manager simplifies API and deployment models, and auto-scales the data grid to increase capacity on-the-fly.
In XAP 8.0 the ESM is production-reaady, supporting any type of processing unit (data grid only, data grid + business logic, business logic only, web…), and integrating out-of-the-box with the public cloud.

Improved Complex Object Handling

Significantly increases developer productivity
XAP 8.0 includes the ability to index and query complex object structures, including nested objects, nested collections of objects at any nesting level – in a scalable, efficient manner

Multi-Site Deployment Support

Easily implement geographically distributed deployments, increase your application’s reliability through DRP
XAP will automatically keep your clusters in sync and will detect conflicts for you

System Alerts

Decrease unplanned downtime, speed up troubleshooting
Out-of-the-box alerting system identifies and notifies about risky situations, such as above-normal CPU utilization, database failure, or low memory – increasing your ability to resolve issues quickly and cost-effectively

Support for 3rd-Party Monitoring Tools

Better overall system visibility, protecting mission-critical application health
Easier integration with established products through use of standard protocols to propagate system alerts.

Improved Split-Brain Handling

Maintain availability even under the most fatal conditions
When network connectivity across the cluster is compromised, XAP will keep your application running and recover it after network has been restored

Runtime Backwards Compatibility

Improved business continuity during platform upgrades; easier upgrade process across your organization
XAP 8.0 enables “mixed version” situations during upgrades, enabling space clients and space servers to be upgraded separately

Enhanced Replication Module

Even better performance & reliability save you more hardware and make downtime even more unlikely than before
This will keep your application running faster than anyone else, while making sure you’re always open for business