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| Ehcache | Chronicle Map | |
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| 3 | 4 | |
| 1,963 | 2,684 | |
| 1.1% | 0.8% | |
| 5.2 | 8.4 | |
| 10 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Ehcache
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GC, hands off my data!
I decided to start with an overview of what open-source options are currently available. When it comes to the implementation of the on-heap cache mechanism, the options are numerous – there is well known: guava, ehcache, caffeine and many other solutions. However, when I began researching cache mechanisms offering the possibility of storing data outside GC control, I found out that there are very few solutions left. Out of the popular ones, only Terracotta is supported. It seems that this is a very niche solution and we do not have many options to choose from. In terms of less-known projects, I came across Chronicle-Map, MapDB and OHC. I chose the last one because it was created as part of the Cassandra project, which I had some experience with and was curious about how this component worked:
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Counting faster with Postgres
If the application is a simple two-tier app with only UI and some form of backend, then we can use a caching layer such as EH Cache or Cache tools to maintain the count of rows as and when we insert it. These caches can be backed by persistence so that the data is not lost. Caches are lightweight and pretty fast. Alternatively, one can store the count in the database itself. The key feature of this approach is that the trigger to update the count is the application's responsibility.
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Resume Advice Thread - June 19, 2021
"EHCache" is formally "Ehcache".
Chronicle Map
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GC, hands off my data!
I decided to start with an overview of what open-source options are currently available. When it comes to the implementation of the on-heap cache mechanism, the options are numerous – there is well known: guava, ehcache, caffeine and many other solutions. However, when I began researching cache mechanisms offering the possibility of storing data outside GC control, I found out that there are very few solutions left. Out of the popular ones, only Terracotta is supported. It seems that this is a very niche solution and we do not have many options to choose from. In terms of less-known projects, I came across Chronicle-Map, MapDB and OHC. I chose the last one because it was created as part of the Cassandra project, which I had some experience with and was curious about how this component worked:
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Off-heap memory in Java
Chronicle-Map: Chronicle Map is an in-memory, key-value store, designed for low-latency, and/or multi-process applications.
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Solution for hash-map with >100M values
I've wrangled data sets in the ~600gb range using nothing but plain old Java and a few beefy boxes. This can all be kept in memory, but you have to go off-heap. You can use Chronicle Map and Chronicle Values to model this data and work with it off-heap in a way that's still very clean and object oriented. 128gb of RAM is cheap these days, whether you're in the cloud or not.
What are some alternatives?
Caffeine - A high performance caching library for Java
MapDB - MapDB provides concurrent Maps, Sets and Queues backed by disk storage or off-heap-memory. It is a fast and easy to use embedded Java database engine.
Hazelcast - Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Redisson - Redisson - Easy Redis Java client and Real-Time Data Platform. Sync/Async/RxJava/Reactive API. Over 50 Redis based Java objects and services: Set, Multimap, SortedSet, Map, List, Queue, Deque, Semaphore, Lock, AtomicLong, Map Reduce, Bloom filter, Spring Cache, Tomcat, Scheduler, JCache API, Hibernate, RPC, local cache ...
JetBrains Xodus - Transactional schema-less embedded database used by JetBrains YouTrack and JetBrains Hub.
Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
H2 - H2 is an embeddable RDBMS written in Java.
Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper
Jedis - Redis Java client
Apache Geode - Apache Geode
Speedment - Speedment is a Stream ORM Java Toolkit and Runtime