[infinispan-dev] What really is Infinispan

[Galder Zamarreño]

Israel,

You might wanna check out the presentation Manik and myself did for 2010 Red Hat summit where we discussed the different Infinispan use cases: http://goo.gl/BM9fj

That should give you a good idea of what Infinispan can be used for.

Cheers,

On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Israel Lacerra wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> Sorry. It's probably not a dev question... 
> 
> I'm writing a paper for my graduation (about Infinispan) as I said before. I'm having some doubts about what Infinispan really is. I watched some Manik presentations on internet and read a little articles. I saw Manik saying something like Infinispan be a in memory data base, and not just a distributed cache. And I read (http://java.dzone.com/articles/data-service-data-fabric) that Infinispan is something like Voldermort or Dynamo. And in some other sites, like http://nosql-database.org/, Infinispan is classified like a "Grid Database solution" (like Oracle Coherence) and somehow different of Voldermort. Reading Infinispan documentation and these and other articles, I not really sure what differs Infinispan and Voldermort.
> 
> I'm not really sure if I made myself clear, but I'm having some problems defining what is Infinispan (or what Infinispan wants to be in the end) (comparing with these other products).
> 
> Anyway... any replies to this mail could help me!
> 
> 
> thanks!
> 
> Israel
> 
> 
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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache