Oracle puts Coherence 3.3 on general availability

It’s aimed at the growing demand for ‘extreme transaction processing’ (XTP) and features enhanced performance, quality-of-service and clustering capabilities, as well as tighter integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware and support for Microsoft’s .Net framework. Oracle says it will help users to push data closer to their application for faster access and greater resource utilisation. By automatically and dynamically partitioning data in memory across multiple servers, Coherence enables continuous data availability and transactional integrity, even in the event of a server failure. Also, as a shared infrastructure, the system combines data locality with local processing power to perform real-time data analysis, in-memory grid computations and parallel transaction and event processing. Oracle says that Coherence 3.3 offers enhanced multi-core support for the latest commodity server hardware; and that platform support has been expanded to include Java SE v6 and Microsoft .Net, as well as J2EE applications. “As elements of a modern application infrastructure such as service oriented architecture, Web 2.0 and event-driven architecture push the scalability, reliability and performance envelope, organisations are increasingly relying on middleware to distribute application processing and more efficiently utilise resources,” comments Cameron Purdy, vice president of development, Oracle. “Combining the in-memory data grid infrastructure of Oracle Coherence with Oracle Fusion Middleware, we now offer customers a comprehensive solution to address their evolving XTP requirements,” he adds. Oracle Coherence is being offered in three packages: Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition and Grid Edition, starting at $4,000 per CPU for small-scale applications and running up to $20,000 per CPU for a shared enterprise-wide data services platform. You can get the free evaluation version at: http://www.oracle.com/goto/coherence