AH, I stand corrected. Hard to follow Larry's acquisitions without a scorecard.
On 5/20/11, Peter Lin <wool...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's completely wrong. > > TimesTen and Coherence are 2 separate products sold by Oracle. > Coherence is a data grid that takes a key/value approach. It is > massively scalable across LAN and WAN. > > In terms of comparing Cassandra and Coherence, I wouldn't. Coherence > is a data grid and most often used as a fault tolerant distributed > cache, though it does a lot more than that. Oracle bought Tangosol a > few years back. > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Jeffrey Kesselman <jef...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I believe coherence is their name for the TimesTen technology they bought. >> >> TT is an in memory SQL database that can run as a cache for Oracle. >> >> Its totally different from Cassandra. On the one hand it supports >> trad SQL whereas Cassandra does not. On the other hand Cassandra is >> truly distributed and fault tolerant, whereas TT is not. >> >> I suggest getting and reading the Oriely Cassandra book. >> >> JK >> >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Karamel, Raghu >> <raghu_kara...@intuit.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> I am new to Cassandra and very excited with the technology. I am >>> evaluating >>> it and trying to understand the difference between Cassandra and Oracle >>> Coherence. Precisely , looking for reasons why would some select >>> Cassandra >>> over Oracle Coherence. Does anyone did the exercise of comparing them? >>> Appreciate if you can share some information on that. >>> >>> >>> >>> Regrads >>> >>> -RK >> >> >> >> -- >> It's always darkest just before you are eaten by a grue. >> > -- It's always darkest just before you are eaten by a grue.
