Infinispan

Infinispan
Developer(s)	Red Hat
Stable release	14.0.7.Final / March 13, 2023;3 months ago
Written in	Java
Platform	Platform independent
Type	Data Grid
License	Apache Software License 2.0
Website	infinispan.org

Last updated June 21, 2023

Infinispan is a distributed cache ^[1] and key-value NoSQL data store software developed by Red Hat. Java applications can embed it as library, use it as a service in WildFly ^[2]^[1] or any non-java applications^[3] can use it as remote service through TCP/IP.^[4]

History

Infinispan is the successor of JBoss Cache.^[1] The project was announced in 2009.

Features

Transactions
MapReduce
Support for LRU and LIRS eviction algorithms
Through pluggable architecture, infinispan is able to persist data to filesystem, relational databases with JDBC, LevelDB, NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Apache Cassandra or HBase and others.^[5]

Usage

Typical use-cases for Infinispan include:

Distributed cache ^[1], often in front of a database
Storage for temporal data, like web sessions
In-memory data processing and analytics
Cross-JVM communication and shared storage
MapReduce Implementation in the In-Memory Data Grid.

Infinispan is also used in academia and research as a framework for distributed execution and storage.

Cloud2Sim^[6] leverages Infinispan for its distributed execution of MapReduce workflows and simulations.
MEDIator data sharing synchronization platform for medical image archives^[7] leverages Infinispan as its distributed in-memory storage, as well as distributed execution framework.
Cassowary^[8] uses Infinispan to store the context information in-memory, in order to provide the middleware platform for context-aware smart buildings.

Citations

1 2 3 4 Adamski 2018, pp. 383–384, Chapter §15 Sharing the Web Sessions - Infinispan.
↑ Francesco Marchioni and Manik Surtani (2012). Infinispan Data Grid Platform. ISBN 9781849518222.
↑ Manik Surtani. "Infinispan: the Start of a New Era in Open Source Data Grids".
↑ Manik Surtani. "Infinispan".
↑ "Infinispan User Guide". Archived from the original on 2016-08-29. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
↑ Kathiravelu, Pradeeban; Veiga, Luís (8 December 2014). An Adaptive Distributed Simulator for Cloud and MapReduce Algorithms and Architectures. IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2014. London. pp. 79–88. doi:10.1109/UCC.2014.16.
↑ Kathiravelu, Pradeeban; Sharma, Ashish (10 August 2015). MEDIator: A Data Sharing Synchronization Platform for Heterogeneous Medical Image Archives. Workshop on Connected Health at Big Data Era (BigCHat'15), co-located with 21 st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2015). Sydney. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
↑ Kathiravelu, Pradeeban; Sharifi, Leila; Veiga, Luís (8 December 2015). Cassowary: Middleware Platform for Context-Aware Smart Buildings with Software-Defined Sensor Networks (PDF). Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT. Vancouver. pp. 1–6. Archived from the original (pdf) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

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References

Adamski, T. (2018). Hands-On Cloud Development with WildFly: Develop, deploy, and configure cloud-based, enterprise Java applications with WildFly Swarm and OpenShift. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78728-380-0 . Retrieved June 20, 2023.

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[FOOTNOTEAdamski2018383–384Chapter_§15_Sharing_the_Web_Sessions_-_Infinispan-1] 1 2 3 4 Adamski 2018, pp. 383–384, Chapter §15 Sharing the Web Sessions - Infinispan.

[2] Francesco Marchioni and Manik Surtani (2012). Infinispan Data Grid Platform. ISBN 9781849518222.

[firstblogpost-3] Manik Surtani. "Infinispan: the Start of a New Era in Open Source Data Grids".

[oasabook-4] Manik Surtani. "Infinispan".

[5] "Infinispan User Guide". Archived from the original on 2016-08-29. Retrieved 2016-08-24.

[6] Kathiravelu, Pradeeban; Veiga, Luís (8 December 2014). An Adaptive Distributed Simulator for Cloud and MapReduce Algorithms and Architectures. IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2014. London. pp. 79–88. doi:10.1109/UCC.2014.16.

[7] Kathiravelu, Pradeeban; Sharma, Ashish (10 August 2015). MEDIator: A Data Sharing Synchronization Platform for Heterogeneous Medical Image Archives. Workshop on Connected Health at Big Data Era (BigCHat'15), co-located with 21 st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2015). Sydney. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[8] Kathiravelu, Pradeeban; Sharifi, Leila; Veiga, Luís (8 December 2015). Cassowary: Middleware Platform for Context-Aware Smart Buildings with Software-Defined Sensor Networks (PDF). Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT. Vancouver. pp. 1–6. Archived from the original (pdf) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

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