Oracle Coherence 3.5

Clustered cache topologies

For each clustered cache you define in your application, you have to make an important choice—which cache topology to use.

There are two base cache topologies in Coherence: replicated and partitioned. They are implemented by two different clustered cache services, the Replicated Cache service and the Partitioned Cache service, respectively.

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Distributed or partitioned?

You will notice that the partitioned cache is often referred to as a distributed cache as well, especially in the API documentation and configuration elements.

This is somewhat of a misnomer, as both replicated and partitioned caches are distributed across many nodes, but unfortunately the API and configuration element names have to remain the way they ...