GemStone Systems has recently announced the release of GemFire Enterprise 5.5, a core component of its high-performance Enterprise Data Fabric (EDF). The release will offer distributed event processing capabilities with the introduction of continuous querying and durable event notifications to hundreds of clients.
By providing a highly-scalable, rugged distributed system capable of extremely high throughput and predictable response time, the product aims to exceed customer service-level agreements.

“The release is a significant milestone for our customers as they will now be able to manage the entire SLA process on a new level,” said Jags Ramnarayan, Chief Architect, GemStone Systems. “Driven by market demand, the combination of new features provides customers with the tools to build a highly-scalable and secure data infrastructure that converts a network of nodes into an operational data store,” added Ramnarayan.

The product introduces a pluggable framework for security, a graphical monitoring tool for managing multiple deployed distributed systems and increased reliability over the publish/subscribe model.  From a business perspective, users will be able to take advantage of the distributed event processing and improved scalability features to immediately capitalize on opportunities created by changing market conditions with improved system response times. The enhancements in the product also enable users to handle data bursts without the loss of data and events for both connected and disconnected client applications.

Additionally, the product helps optimally distribute data in the distributed system based on the memory allocated by each cache member. With the introduction of continuous querying, developers will be able to use simple API to register complex interest in fast changing data and build responsive applications that get timely notifications when the underlying data changes.  From a security perspective, customers will now be able to use their existing authentication and authorization framework to validate credentials of the members of the distributed system.