by Angela Guess
Lawrence Latif of The Inquirer reports that Red Hat has released a beta version of Data Grid 6. Latif writes, “Red Hat’s JBoss Data Grid 6 is the firm’s NoSQL implementation that it claims can handle the glut of user generated data. Red Hat said its Data Grid 6 can be deployed and used by applications coded in a multitude of languages including Java, .Net and Python. The firm also tacked on the usual buzzwords to try to sell the virtues of Data Grid, claiming it has high availability, is elastic to meet demand cycles and scales well, something every NoSQL proponent has been claiming.”
He continues, “Data Grid is a significant product for Red Hat, as it intends to compete with traditional ‘rows and columns’ relational databases and other NoSQL databases. Red Hat promotes Data Grid’s ability to run in system memory, saying that writing to disks is only an option rather than standard practice. Given that Red Hat envisages Data Grid to work on large datasets, such statements are music to the ears of impoverished DRAM manufacturers. Although NoSQL is relatively new, vendors such as Couchbase have won a number of high profile customers such as Cisco, Salesforce and Zynga.”
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