Region Data Storage and Distribution

This topic links to documentation about region data storage and distribution in VMware GemFire.

The VMware GemFire data storage and distribution models put your data in the right place at the right time. The following topics provide information about the options for data storage in GemFire.

• Storage and Distribution Options

  VMware GemFire provides several models for data storage and distribution, including partitioned or replicated regions as well as distributed or non-distributed regions (local cache storage).

• Region Types

  Region types define region behavior within a single cluster. You have various options for region data storage and distribution.

• Region Data Policies

  Lists and describes the region data policies in VMware GemFire.

• Region Data Stores and Data Accessors

  Understand the difference between members that store data for a region and members that act only as data accessors to the region.

• Creating Regions Dynamically

  You can dynamically create regions in your application code and automatically instantiate them on members of a cluster.