Space4J is a simple database system that will let you work with Java Collections in memory. Since memory is several orders of magnitude faster than disk for random access to data, Space4J provides ...

At the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Markus Kett presented a database alternative for Java: the in-memory EclipseStore promises faster data processing with lower cloud costs. It stores Java objects as ...

In-memory computing has been maturing quickly over the last three years. It had been used mostly in small-scale databases but is now ready to hit the big time due to changes in the technology and ...

MemSQL announced Sept. 18 that its distributed in-memory database, which competes with similar DBs from SAP, SAS, Teradata, Oracle, Birst and several others, has become the first to provide Java ...

When physical memory is scarce, paging causes garbage collection to run an order of magnitude slower than explicit memory management.

A look at some of the best database and RDBMS tools for Java software developers. Learn more about Java and database programming.

Hazelcast today announced the beta release of the latest version of its namesake in-memory data grid, Hazelcast IMDG 3.12. With this release, the company adds new features focused on data integrity, ...

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails ...

Here's a quick JDBC with HSQLDB tutorial to get you up and running with Java database connectivity and the popular HyperSQL database.