GridGain 4.5 Released!

February 22, 2013

GridGain is pleased to announce the GA release of GridGain 4.5. This is the last major release in 4.x product line and we've been long working on 5.x features and 5.0 is just around the corner.

For all products customers and user running 4.x we highly recommend upgrading to the latest 4.5 release.

New Features And Enhancements

HyperLocking to minimize locking and serialization overhead for cache transactions under load.

Risk Analytics benchmark.

Added support for Custom SQL Functions

GridCacheQueryCustomFunctionExample to show how to use them.

Full off-heap indexing to GridH2IndexingSpi.

Topic-based user message exchange.

GridNoopCheckpointSpi to remove checkpoint overhead whenever checkpoints are not used.

GridNoopSwapSpaceSpi to remove swap space overhead whenever it is not used.

Visor New Features and Enhancements

Telemetry screen in Visor to show overall grid status based on various metrics.

Dedicated cache tab to show all cache-specific information.

Core Bug Fixes

Path space issues in ggstart.bat startup script.

Deadlock with concurrent evictAll() and unswapAll()

Query iterators are removed but not closed when originating node leaves of fails.

Restructured all examples to make them easier to use and understand.

Client Connectivity Bug Fixes

Removed ADD method from client API as it was identical to putIfAbsent method.

Visor Management Bug Fixes

Visor graph tooltip does not show whole information.

Visor spits errors (failed to fetch model update) when new node joins and busy with data pre-loading.

Visor Management Bug Fixes

Visor graph tooltip does not show whole information.

Visor spits errors (failed to fetch model update) when new node joins and busy with data pre-loading.