Kaminario K2 (discontinued) vs. Oracle Coherence

K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash.

Incentivized

It literally all boils down to the budget a team has. Nowadays, even investment banks look for every opportunity to cut cost. Oracle Coherence is a pretty robust and highly configurable cache application that every team should use if they can afford. If they can't, then open source code is their answer.

Incentivized

• Great performance
• Great support
• Super-simple to use

Incentivized

• Distributed in memory data managment. Your data is near your data manipulator or calculator engine.
• Write behind, read through, write through concept.
• Fault tolerance and scalable.
• Continueous query, live events, map reduced aggregiation, extend client are few of the very good features I have used.

Incentivized

• Not well known, so third-party support is lacking
• Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1)

Incentivized

• Better documentation on setting up various use cases.

Incentivized

Oracle Coherence support team is responsive and knowledgeable. We contacted them to ask a couple of design questions about how we were setting up Oracle Coherence based on how we used IBM's Datapower Extreme Scale. They were able to guide us so that we got the design correct the first time and didn't have to go back and re-architect our design later.

Incentivized

We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford

Incentivized

Coherence kicks Redis's butt when it comes to performance and feature set. However, it lags far behind in terms of market penetration and cloud readiness.

Incentivized

• Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks.
• Less time managing storage.

Incentivized

• Better performance allows us to onboard more clients
• Decom few mainframes that were needed to handle lots of DB queries
• Better customer service with intraday calculations ability.

Incentivized