VMware vFabric GemFire: Elastic In-Memory Data Management

Overview

As modern applications have become increasingly Web-oriented, data-intensive and inherently more dynamic in nature, the need for modern approaches to data management has evolved. While first-generation Web applications could tolerate time-consuming round-trips to store and retrieve data from a database, newer applications require a different approach. This white paper from VMWare explains the benefits of using in-memory data management.