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Overview

Apache Geode (incubating) is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud architectures.

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Apache Geode is a mature, robust technology originally developed by GemStone Systems in Beaverton, Oregon. Commercially available as GemFire™, the technology was first widely deployed in the financial sector as the transactional, low-latency data engine used in Wall Street trading platforms. Today Apache Geode is used by over 600 enterprise customers for high-scale business applications that must meet low latency and 24x7 availability requirements. This project is undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Incubator. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

Main Concepts and Components

Caches are an abstraction that describe a node in a Geode distributed system.

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Download and install Geode binaries from http://geode.incubator.apache.org/releases/, and follow the installation instructions at in the posted manual at http://geode.incubator.apache.org/docs/. 

With a path that contains the bin directory of the installation, start a locator and server:

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$ javac -cp /some/path/incubator-geode/geode-assembly/build/install/apache-geode/lib/geode-dependencies.jar HelloWorld.java 
$ java -cp .:/some/path/incubator-geode/geode-assembly/build/install/apache-geode/lib/geode-dependencies.jar HelloWorld

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