In the storm of the persistence SPI rework that happened during Infinispan 6.0, the MongoDB cache store, among others, was left in a state of semi-abandonment for a long time.

Fortunately a few brave souls came to its rescue and have breathed new life into it so that it can be used with Infinispan 8.x

In particular I wish to thank Kurt Lehrke for doing most of the work !!!

Get it from the dedicated cache store download page.

With the 5.3 release, there is a brand new feature. I’m glad to announce that you will be able to use MongoDB as a cache store.

For those who don’t know MongoDB, it’s an open-source document oriented NoSQL database developped by 10Gen. You can more information about it on http://www.mongodb.org/.

The question you have right now, it probably, how to use it cool cache store ? Simple, as for the other cache store you have to add a loader in your Infinispan configuration file.

Here is an exemple:

If you prefer the programmatic API:

For more information about the configuration possibilities (default values, options, etc) , you can refer to the documentation page

Cheers, Guillaume Hibernate OGM & Infinispan contributor Blog / @g_scheibel

Besides a handful of fixes, this release contains two very important contributions:

Please stay tuned for blogs detailing these features.

For a complete list of features included in this release refer to the release notes.

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Cheers,

Mircea