[infinispan-dev] Major version cleaning

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 20 February 2017 at 20:11, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 20/02/17 19:02, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>> -1 to batch removal
>>
>> Frankly I've always been extremely negative about the fact that
>> batches are built on top of transactions.
>
> I think the discussion is pointless without clearing up what the
> expected semantics of a batch should be and what the expected advantages
> over individual invocations should be.
> A batch is just a glorified putAll which also supports removes. All
> write ops are queued locally and are then sent in groups to the
> respective owners. What you get is deferred invocations and 1 remote
> invocation per unique owner. What you don't get is atomicity and
> isolation. You should use transactions for that.

I get that. But the "glorified putAll which also supports removes" is
important to have.

>
> Tristan
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