Caching architecture: Maps, containers, clients, and catalogs

With WebSphere® eXtreme Scale, your architecture can use local in-memory data caching or distributed client-server data caching.

WebSphere eXtreme Scale requires minimal additional infrastructure to operate. The infrastructure consists of scripts to install, start, and stop a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition application on a server. Cached data is stored in the eXtreme Scale server, and clients remotely connect to the server.

Distributed caches offer increased performance, availability and scalability and can be configured using dynamic topologies, in which servers are automatically balanced. You can also add additional servers without restarting your existing eXtreme Scale servers. You can create either simple deployments or large, terabyte-sized deployments in which thousands of servers are needed.