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FEATURE
IMDG
GRIDGAIN 6.5
GEMFIRE 8.0
Local
Partitioned
Replicated
IMDG
(synchronous only)
Synchronous APIs
Asynchronous APIs
Fully Async Mode (Primary and Backups are Async)
Memcached API
Off-Heap Near Cache
(values only)
(rich support)
(LRU)
IMDG
Integration
Plug-n-Play Web Session Clustering
Plug-n-Play Hibernate L2 Caching
IMDG
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EDITION
FEATURE
IMDG
GRIDGAIN 6.5
GEMFIRE 8.0
(READ_COMMITTED only)
XA Integration
Fault Tolerance (Including client/near/primary/backup
node failures)
Pessimistic Concurrency (Two-Phase-Commit)
One-Phase-Commit Optimization
Custom Affinity (Partitioning) Function
Near Cache Transactions (i.e. Client Cache Transactions)
Eviction / Expiration Policies for Transactional Caches
Merge with DB Transactions (e.g. Oracle DB, MySql, etc.)
Cross-Partition Transactions
IMDG
IMDG
(via GridDataLoader)
(via GridCacheStore.
loadCache method)
IMDG
Platform
Grid Management
GUI (graphical) Management Tool
Command-Line Management Tool
Elasticity (ability to add/remove grid nodes on demand)
Datacenter (WAN) Replication (Active-Active, Active-Passive)
Rolling Upgrades
Network Segmentation (Split Brain)
Distributed Event Notifications
(transactional)
Distributed Messaging
Security
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EDITION
FEATURE
Platform
Security
GRIDGAIN 6.5
GEMFIRE 8.0
SSL Support
Client Authentication
Cluster Member Authentication
Per-Client Permissions
Client
(Portable Objects)
(PDX)
HPC
Streaming
In-Memory Streaming
Branching Pipelines (Workflows for stream processing)
Complex event processing (CEP)
Pluggable routing
Configurable data windows
Continuous queries over data windows
Cloud
(S3-based IP Finder)
* This comparison is based on our best knowledge of the features available in the GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric and in the
GemFire software at the time this document was created.
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