BigMemory Takes on Java's Achilles' Heel: Garbage Collection

news by John K. Waters

Terracotta has just announced the general availability of its new Java add-on for the Enterprise version of its Ehcache distributed Java caching software. Dubbed BigMemory, the add-on is designed to release Java apps from the memory and performance constraints of garbage collection (GC).


BigMemory allows Java apps to cache 64 GBs or more of data in an off-heap store that’s not subject to GC. And by allowing JVMs to be larger and less numerous it improves app performance. Anne MacFarland, senior contributing analyst at the Clipper Group, called BigMemory, "a step forward in the evolution of Enterprise Java."


http://adtmag.com/articles/2010/11/09/bigmemory-add-on-now-live.aspx
http://adtmag.com/articles/2010/09/15/bigmemory-add-on.aspx

http://www.terracotta.org/bigmemory

http://www.terracotta.org/start/bigmemory-tutorial

BigMemory: Off-heap Store
http://ehcache.org/documentation/offheap_store.html

http://ehcache.org/
http://www.bigmemory.org/
http://www.terracotta.org/