Anyone using Gigaspaces

Has anyone heard of Gigaspaces and are you using it to scale out and improve
database performance issues ?
ThanksWell, Gigaspaces isn't exactly a secret - the company's been around for ten years. It has many customers in high-end financials and ecommerce environments, for example - publicized customers include Virgin Mobile, Dow Jones, Societe Generale, and others.



As far as database performance issues, Gigaspaces is designed to use a relational database (or any other data store) as a backend storage system, which means the actual database performance doesn't matter very much at all, because the ideal use is as an asynchronous backing store.



See http://www.gigaspaces.com/screencasts/developer/ScreenCasts.html#paas-video for an example of the asynchronous backing store in motion.