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Infinispan is an extremely scalable, highly available key/value data store and data grid platform. It is 100% open source, and written in Java. The purpose of Infinispan is to expose a data structure that is distributed, highly concurrent and designed ground-up to make the most of modern multi-processor and multi-core architectures. It is often used as a distributed cache, but also as a NoSQL key/value store or object database.
Customer Reviews
Cosmin S.
Advanced user of InfinispanGreat beginner documentation, proven track record, open-source, performant, great community.
Our adoption has been relying mostly on the open-source version of Infinispan. We have not reached out to RedHat for any enterprise support, as we would like to first evaluate the product before opting for the Enterprise features.
Lack of documentation on some of the advanced features. Some sections of the documentation are unfinished.
Monitoring of the Infinispan cache is done through RHQ, not included out of the box. RHQ implements an agent/server model, where there's an agent on every Infinispan node, sending metrics to the RHQ server for aggregation and visualization. This means you have yet another component to setup and configure.
Infinispan is quick to get running out of the box, but you will start slowing down when you try to do anything non-standard (or not explained in the documentation). Overall adoption is quick but some of the advanced features are not well documented.
The community is active and I was able to Google answers to most of the questions. We have not reached out for paid support.
Using Infinispan as a remote, clustered Cache. Allow server restarts without clearing/reloading the cache.
