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.