Jun 24
GigaSpaces XAP - Now on Amazon EC2
The GigaSpaces XAP (eXtreme Application Platform) is now available as an Amazon EC2 AMI (Amazon Machine Image).
At the core, XAP implements a scalable, in-memory database which can be
used as a data grid, a messaging grid, or as a parallel processing
framework.
XAP makes it easy to scale the entire middleware layer (data, messaging, and services) of an application. It does this using an architecture which provides for just-in-time provisioning of processing resources, making it an ideal match for EC2. You can build and test an application on your laptop, and then migrate it to your own data center or to Amazon EC2 without any code changes.
The entire system runs under the control of an SLA-driven container. The container hosts applications, scales out to additional instances as needed, and manages partitioning, replication, and failover.
Applications can be built using C++, any .Net language, or Java via Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, Mule, or J2EE. These applications […]