What is XAP?
It provides an essential set of data store features, such as transactions, indexes, and query language (SQL-like queries). It also handles common functions such as messaging, event processing, data access, and transaction processing (ACID compliant) completely and exclusively in-memory.
XAP is a tool in the In-Memory Databases category of a tech stack.
Who uses XAP?
Companies
XAP's Features
- In-memory data grid
- Stream processing for mission-critical applications
- Empowers event-driven microservices and distributed applications for real-time big data innovation
XAP Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to XAP?
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Hazelcast
With its various distributed data structures, distributed caching capabilities, elastic nature, memcache support, integration with Spring and Hibernate and more importantly with so many happy users, Hazelcast is feature-rich, enterprise-ready and developer-friendly in-memory data grid solution.
Aerospike
Aerospike is an open-source, modern database built from the ground up to push the limits of flash storage, processors and networks. It was designed to operate with predictable low latency at high throughput with uncompromising reliability – both high availability and ACID guarantees.
SAP HANA
It is an application that uses in-memory database technology that allows the processing of massive amounts of real-time data in a short time. The in-memory computing engine allows it to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk.
NCache
NCache is an open source distributed cache for .NET & .NET Core (Apache 2.0) by Alachisoft.
NCache provides an extremely fast and linearly scalable distributed cache that caches application data and reduces expensive database trips.
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