Data Access using GemFire (from VMWare)

In the same week (4/18-2/22, Neo4j Graph DB webinar) I attended this online presentation about Spring GemFire. GemFire is a Spring top project and KV store (NOSQL store) with OQL support. Here are some notes from the the presentation.

Data Access Challenges:

#1: Scale Horizontally

• RDBMS technology is under duress
• Traditional RDBMS scaling is vertical, not horizontal
•  Database replication is expensive and difficult

#2: Heterogeneous data access need

• ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) - Bank system
• BASE (Basically Available, Soft state, Eventual consistency) - Social system
• Speed is king, Scale is queen

#3: Extreme transaction processing

• Partition operational data across many servers
• Client should be partition unaware
• Distributed transactions are evil
• Compensating transactions are necessary evil

Spring Data
Spring Frameworks & Tools are on top of WMWare vFabric Platform Services to provide "Application Infrastructure for the Cloud"

Spring GemFire

• Data Modeling
• Data Access (OQL v.s. SQL)
• Data Management