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The blurry line between event driven data management and grid architecture

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Ever found yourself describing a design that you think is so 'obvious' that everyone must already understand it, only to find that almost no one understands it... and then find that there is a product that uses it?

That has happened to me more than once.  It is frustrating.

So, I'm at the local meeting of the IASA listening to a presentation on 'grid' computing, which is a distributed computing architecture that ranges from SETI-style multi-processing to wide ranging smart-cache technologies.  Interesting stuff.

Then it occurs to me that the simple model I've been describing for event driven cache management, for well over two years, is really a simple form of the same data replication that is enabled by these tools.  I didn't think of it originally... I had heard an ESB vendor describe this design many years ago, but he didn't give it a name.  The design stuck in my head but I didn't have any good category for it.

Well, at least I now know what to call it.  Gigaspaces calls this the 'Data Grid.'  Other vendors have products that compete, from what I'm told.  I'll have to dig.

Liking it.  Now, I need to find it on the MS stack...

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2006
    GigaSpaces Enterprise Edition has .NET and C++ interfaces to it. We have several customers that are using the product in MS enviornments.
  • Anonymous
    October 16, 2006
    Hi Avinash, Data Grids are all about "live" data, and being "live" and "real time" requires event flow to be a cornerstone of the data management capabilities in the data grid. More and more of these applications that we are seeing are entirely event-driven, and facilitating that (and ensuring the various "-ilities" such as reliability and availability and scalability) is a huge part of what we do. These technologies are in the process of redefining the accepted best practices for the architecture of entire classes of applications. And as far as it being "the best work on the planet," you've obviously never visited Tangosol ;-) Peace, Cameron.