Major OpenRDS Features

  • Extremely simple public API;
  • Tiny JAR file (76.7 KB at version 1.1-beta without debug info);
  • High level of customization and monitoring with event listeners;
  • Dynamic class downloading. The nodes doesn’t need to have the code to be executed, it will be automatically transferred over the network. (This feature can be disabled if necessary);
  • Add/remove nodes with the system running, with total transparency to client application;
  • Auto-configurable system, you just need to know the IP address (or hostname) of the main node;
  • Automatic and transparent node failure detection. The system keeps running if a node crashes, and all requisitions that it was processing are transferred to another node;
  • Run it embedded or stand-alone. You can start a node in the same JVM of your application or run it as a separated process, you decide;
  • High performance;
  • Multi-platform (runs in virtually any OS with a Java Runtime). You can even mix your nodes, running them on many different platforms at the same time;
  • Open-source under LGPL license, free for both commercial and non-commercial use.