back to article Big, distributed, and fast: Ehcache sucks up search

Open sourcers running the Ehcache distributed Java cache can now search their data in near real-time by harnessing lashed-together servers. Terracotta, which bought the Ehcache project in 2009, has released Ehcache 2.4. It features an API extension that lets you perform object-level queries of data held in memory. The API is …

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  1. Ian Stephenson
    WTF?

    Doubletake..

    Anyone else read the title as Earache?

  2. Patrick Durusau

    Hyperlinks?

    Since this is the WWW, I was surprised this article had not one link to either Terracotta or Ehcache.

    The "read more" links at the bottom of the page that point to more resources on this site may be helpful but not what I was looking for.

    Don't have to repeat the links over and over again in the article but the first paragraph should have links to the main subjects and links inserted as other subjects come up.

    Thanks!

    Patrick

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "Java for the NoSQL generation"

    What? Java created the NoSQL generation. Or rather, OOP created the NoSQL generation.

    When you spend your college years working on smallish data sets in an OOP on a modern machine you get used to working in RAM. Occasionally you want to "persist" data.

    As a result no one learns about RDBMS anymore. The uni kids have no idea of why atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability are useful and important so now it takes forever to get the kids to a useful stage.

  4. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    Running the whole dataset in RAM

    Because of *course* you'll always have enough RAM to do this.

    That's a script kiddies view of the world.

    WTF are they teaching on *proper* CS courses these days?

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