Israel, You might wanna check out the presentation Manik and myself did for 2010 Red Hat summit where we discussed the different Infinispan use cases: http://goo.gl/BM9fj
That should give you a good idea of what Infinispan can be used for. Cheers, On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Israel Lacerra wrote: > Guys, > > Sorry. It's probably not a dev question... > > I'm writing a paper for my graduation (about Infinispan) as I said before. > I'm having some doubts about what Infinispan really is. I watched some Manik > presentations on internet and read a little articles. I saw Manik saying > something like Infinispan be a in memory data base, and not just a > distributed cache. And I read > (http://java.dzone.com/articles/data-service-data-fabric) that Infinispan is > something like Voldermort or Dynamo. And in some other sites, like > http://nosql-database.org/, Infinispan is classified like a "Grid Database > solution" (like Oracle Coherence) and somehow different of Voldermort. > Reading Infinispan documentation and these and other articles, I not really > sure what differs Infinispan and Voldermort. > > I'm not really sure if I made myself clear, but I'm having some problems > defining what is Infinispan (or what Infinispan wants to be in the end) > (comparing with these other products). > > Anyway... any replies to this mail could help me! > > > thanks! > > Israel > > > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev -- Galder Zamarreño Sr. Software Engineer Infinispan, JBoss Cache _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
