InterSystems describes its Caché product as a "post-relational database." That's a term we're beginning to see more of in the tech press and some analyst reports, but a solid definition is hard to ...

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I have an issue that I've been banging my head at for a while. I've been tasked with a building a Java cache toolkit with various implementations all belonging to a single cache interface. One of the ...

"Elastic caching" is a hot buzz-phrase, with most of the attention coming from the cloud and virtualization. It has emerged as the solution dujour to the inherent limitations of the scale-out ...

Developed by Danga Interactive to improve site performance on LiveJournal.com, Memcached‘s distributed architecture today supports the exponential scalability of social web applications like Twitter, ...

If implemented in the next version of JEE (Java Enterprise Edition), Red Hat’s specification could reduce the need for separate Java distributed caches, such as Oracle’s Coherence, VMware’s GemStone ...