At the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Markus Kett presented a database alternative for Java: the in-memory EclipseStore promises faster data processing with lower cloud costs. It stores Java objects as bina ...

A look at some of the best database and RDBMS tools for Java software developers. Learn more about Java and database programming.

Hazelcast today announced the beta release of the latest version of its namesake in-memory data grid, Hazelcast IMDG 3.12. With this release, the company adds new features focused on data integrity, ...

In-memory computing has been maturing quickly over the last three years. It had been used mostly in small-scale databases but is now ready to hit the big time due to changes in the technology and ...

Hazelcast is designed to prevent enterprise applications from drowning in data. The open source technology provider closed a $2.5 million series A round today.

However, with only twice as much memory, garbage collection degrades performance by nearly 70%. When physical memory is scarce, paging causes garbage collection to run an order of magnitude slower ...

The new Microsoft tool for the Azure cloud aims to improve launch times for Java applications and thus reduce cloud costs.