Microsoft's Velocity - Caching turned up a notch

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Microsoft just released it's CTP-1 of a new caching product code named Velocity.  It is a distributed caching technology that should add extra velocity to your ASP.NET applications.

Summary: “Velocity” is a distributed in-memory application cache platform for developing scalable, available, and high-performance applications. “Velocity” fuses memory across multiple computers to give a single unified cache view to applications. Applications can store any serializable CLR object without worrying about where the object gets stored. Scalability can be achieved by simply adding more computers on demand. “Velocity” also allows for copies of data to be stored across the cluster, thus protecting data against failures. “Velocity” can be configured to run as a service accessed over the network or can be run embedded with the distributed application. “Velocity” includes an ASP.NET session provider object that enables ASP.NET session objects to be stored in the distributed cache without having to write to databases. This increases the performance and scalability of ASP.NET applications (17 printed pages)

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11 Comments

  • Wah wah wah - welcome to the business world Bill. Eventually, Microsoft comes into everyones world. It's only a matter of time now for you :)

  • Recently I was going through the different distributed caching solutions available for .NET applications and found few of them such as NCache, Memcahe, Velocity, etc. I downloaded NCache Express from www.alachisoft.com and tested it successfully. We were just comparing the features of eachone of these and also the reliability. As Velocity has the CTP1 in market now with basic features but the features promised for CTP2 are already available in couple of other solutions. After the comparison and testing of couple of solutions we found NCache as a mature product available today. I also tested the support services of this company and found them quite responsive and helpful. I would recommend this product as they are constantly coming up with new techniques regularly.

  • I agree with Bill Bain that Velocity CTP1 and even CTP2 leave much to be desired. And, it will be some time before Microsoft is able to really stabalize Velocity to a level where a serious company would risk their business on it.

    NCache Express is FREE
    NCache Express is totally free and works for a 2-server cache cluster environment. Check it out at http://www.alachisoft.com/rp.php?dest=/ncache/ncache_express.html

    NCache Enterprise
    NCache is the first, the most mature, and the most feature-rich distributed cache in the .NET space. NCache Enterprise is the leading enterprise level distributed cache for .NET. Check it out at http://www.alachisoft.com.


  • I just wanted to add that its a good thing that finally Microsoft has realized the importance of distributed caching and announced the launch of velocity.

    ASP.NET Cache was good for single server environments but wasn't scalable at all.

  • This is great. Microsoft should have an official release of their MVC tecnology and distributed cache by 2010. If they get the ORM released (the successor to the relatively new LINQ to SQL) it will be possible to do in .NET what they've been doing for a decade in Java Enterprise. It's nice to see the market gel for a decade or so before moving in with your own products, and you can't beat using the free intellectual property provided by the open-source community (Hibernate, JBoss Cache, JBoss Workflow products...). Now, if they could only come up with a high level business rules language, we're there. I suggest they download Drools and just copy it. Shhhhhhh!




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