At the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Markus Kett presented a database alternative for Java: the in-memory EclipseStore promises faster data processing with lower cloud costs. It stores Java objects as ...

Data grids tend to use key-value stores as embedded objects on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), while in-memory databases are optimized for columnar storage.

Hazelcast today announced the beta release of the latest version of its namesake in-memory data grid, Hazelcast IMDG 3.12. With this release, the company adds new features focused on data integrity, ...

Hazelcast is designed to prevent enterprise applications from drowning in data. The open source technology provider closed a $2.5 million series A round today.

The GemFire database traces its roots back more than thirty years to GemStone Systems, which created an application framework and object database of the same name that was based on the SmallTalk ...

The new Microsoft tool for the Azure cloud aims to improve launch times for Java applications and thus reduce cloud costs.

When physical memory is scarce, paging causes garbage collection to run an order of magnitude slower than explicit memory management.