ObjectGrid gets renamed to WebSphere eXtreme Scale

IBM relaunched XD today at the Impact conference in Vegas. ObjectGrid aka DataGrid will now be called "WebSphere eXtreme Scale" from a product point of view. As names go, it could be worse :) but I'll be shortening it to WXS in my slides as it's pretty long. I have two speaking sessions at Impact. The first is tomorrow at 16:45. This is about the new stuff over the past 12 months in ObjectGrid aka WXS and the second is on Wednesday at 10:30 with some of the ways customers are using it. Both sessions start with a gentle introduction to what the product does for the first 20 minutes and then gets in to the different topics of the sessions.

Comments

[Lahiru]

Can't we reduce the changes required for portability from ObjectGrid to Coherence or VISA VERSA by integrating the caching tool as a secondary level cache of hibernate?

[Billy]

Yes and thats an easy way to integrate eXtreme Scale or Coherence in to an application but Hibernate has a pretty poor L2 cache interface which is not efficient at all so you won't get best possible performance with that approach but it will absolutely give you a consistent clustered cache.

[Agustin]

How come eXtreme Scale nor Coherence can participate in 2PC transactions? There has to be an architectural barrier to it.

For our project, it just makes the read-only use case the only one we can afford to have, because of no 2PC. Too expensive a tool, just for read-only, don't you think?