Chapter 8. Implementing the Persistence Layer
Coherence was originally conceived as a reliable and scalable distributed cache for J2EE applications connected to relational databases. It has since evolved to become the market leader in data grid technologies. Today many users of Coherence forego the database and store the entire data set for their applications in memory.
However, in spite of the innovation that makes this architecture possible, these applications are still vastly outnumbered by applications that use a database as the system of record. Relational databases continue to be the workhorse of today's enterprise IT; the need for reliable persistence, along with the number of applications and reporting tools that use databases, indicate ...
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