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IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale 6

By : Anthony Chaves
Book Image

IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale 6

By: Anthony Chaves

Overview of this book

A data grid is a means of combining computing resources. Data grids provide a way to distribute object storage and add capacity on demand in the form of CPU, memory, and network resources from additional servers. All three resource types play an important role in how fast data can be processed, and how much data can be processed at once. WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides a solution to scalability issues through caching and grid technology. Working with a data grid requires new approaches to writing highly scalable software; this book covers both the practical eXtreme Scale libraries and design patterns that will help you build scalable software. Starting with a blank slate, this book assumes you don't have experience with IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale. It is a tutorial-style guide detailing the installation of WebSphere eXtreme Scale right through to using the developer libraries. It covers installation and configuration, and discusses the reasons why a data grid is a viable middleware layer. It also covers many different ways of interacting with objects in eXtreme Scale. It will also show you how to use eXtreme Scale in new projects, and integrate it with relational databases and existing applications. This book covers the ObjectMap, Entity, and Query APIs for interacting with objects in the grid. It shows client/server configurations and interactions, as well as the powerful DataGrid API. DataGrid allows us to send code into the grid, which can be run where the data lives. Equally important are the design patterns that go alongside using a data grid. This book covers the major concepts you need to know that prevent your client application from becoming a performance bottleneck. By the end of the book, you'll be able to write software using the eXtreme Scale APIs, and take advantage of a linearly scalable middleware layer.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale 6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Physical location


Another mapSet attribute affecting shard placement is the developmentMode attribute. By default, this value is set to true, meaning the deployment is in development mode. Development mode allows primary and replica shards to be placed on the same host. It also allows us to start all of our containers on the same host, be it our laptop, desktop, test system, or wherever. We cannot run these examples without the development mode as well as without at least two different host operating systems, whether they may be physical boxes or virtual.

When a deployment is not in development mode, two shards from the same partition cannot live on the same host, even if they are in different containers. With developmentMode="false", multiple containers on the same host will not contain any duplicate objects. The entire set of objects is unique because only one shard from each partition may live in a container on that host.

This is significant because a production environment should never...