Alternatives to Google App Engine
Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 5:22PM
natis in Grid, cloud computing, gigaspaces, google
One particularly interesting EC2 third party provider is GigaSpaces with their XAP platform that provides in memory transactions backed up to a database. The in memory transactions appear to scale linearly across machines thus providing a distributed in-memory datastore that gets backed up to persistent storage.
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