Month: March 2011

Comparative Technical Use Cases for Distributed Caches and NoSQL

I have been doing some NoSQL research lately. The first fruit of that work was a guest post on myNoSQL, Ehcache: Distributed Cache or NoSQL Store, which crisply distinguished between a Distributed Cache and NoSQL Stores. In this article I am going to delve into the suitability of each for various technical use cases. I… Continue reading Comparative Technical Use Cases for Distributed Caches and NoSQL

Holy Moly, Batman. Apple upgraded my Maven

I ran a Maven build this morning and it broke. Strange, as I had not changed anything. Maven’s ability to simply break because of a change to a non-versioned dependency or even more arcane, a versioned dependency with a non-versioned dependency of it’s own (a transitive dependency) is legendary.  So I thought that was the… Continue reading Holy Moly, Batman. Apple upgraded my Maven

News on JSR107 (JCACHE) and JSR342 (Java EE 7)

JSR342 JSR342 was created on 14 March 2011. JSR107, or JCACHE, is included: In JSR342’s words: The following new JSRs will be candidates for inclusion in the Java EE 7 platform: Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR-236) JCache (JSR-107) … Isn’t JSR107 inactive? But how could this happen if JSR107 is inactive? Well the answer… Continue reading News on JSR107 (JCACHE) and JSR342 (Java EE 7)

Ehcache: Distributed Cache or NoSQL Store?

Is Ehcache a NoSQL store? No, I would not characterise it as that, but I have seen it used for some NoSQL use cases. In these situations it compared very well — with higher performance and more flexible consistency than the well-known NoSQL stores. Let me explain. Read more…