Using Pivotal GemFire with Hibernate improves performance and scalability, gives you flexible caching options, and more.

• General

  • GemFire's L2 cache solution improves Hibernate performance
  • Reduces traffic to your database server
  • Simple to configure: requires just a few changes to hibernate.cfg.xml
  • Flexible caching options, supporting several local and distributed configurations
  • Access to many of the GemFire features
• Performance

  • Mesh-like architecture provides single hop access to any entity
  • Designed to minimize serialization costs
• Scalability

  • Data can be partitioned across the entire cluster
  • Smart heap utilization / smart eviction algorithm
  • Supports all Hibernate concurrency strategies (read only, read/write, non-strict read/write, transactional)
  • Ensures data consistency without expensive distributed locks
  • Overflow to disk on each system member (i.e. shared nothing persistence)
  • Supports tiered caching