Infinispan

Infinispan

Developer(s)	Red Hat
Stable release	14.0.7.Final / March 13, 2023; 21 months ago (2023-03-13)
Written in	Java
Platform	Platform independent
Type	Data Grid
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	infinispan.org

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.

See also

• Ehcache
• Hazelcast
• Apache Ignite
• GridGain
• Java Transaction API

Citations

1. 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.
3. Manik Surtani. "Infinispan: the Start of a New Era in Open Source Data Grids".
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.

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.