There's a lot of change underway in data. It's become clear that traditional database systems are not going to survive the transitionto cloud and fundamental changes are needed. Databases need to offer tunable consistency to have any hope of dealing with web scale.Databases need to handle geographic distribution effortlessly. Databases... Continue reading

A question came up in our forums about using SQLFire to cache data from a database using lazy loading. I wanted to provide a fairly concrete example that uses MySQL that should give you all the info you need to try it out yourself. Why do this? SQLFire can play... Continue reading

(Note this blog is simulposted here and on Jags Ramnaryan's blog. Jags is our Chief Architect and his blog is well worth subscribing to!) This week we finally reached GA status for VMware vFabric SQLFire - a memory-optimized distributed SQL database delivering dynamic scalability and high performance for data-intensive modern... Continue reading

VMworld is less than a week away. If you're going to be at the show and want to learn more about making data extremely fast and very scalable you've got several ways to do it, through a session, through a lab, and also by stopping by the Cloud Application Platform... Continue reading

Chris Harris has written a series of blog posts showing how to use SQLFire from within Grails. In the process he introduces a couple of very interesting features of SQLFire that I wanted to talk more about, specifically how your app should take advantage of SQLFire's elasticity and the possibility... Continue reading

Today we're very happy to announce that our beta of vFabric SQLFire has been released! There's tremendous change underway today in data management. These days people are looking for databases that are faster, more scalable, more reliable, and can effortlessly serve users around the globe. We believe SQLFire does a... Continue reading