Just want to conclude this thread with a pretty good read about Hazelcast. 
Arguably, by now Hazelcast software (at v3.5) is a pretty robust, 
well-implement and mature distributed grid/cache.

http://www.brickendon.com/articles/achieving-low-latency-using-distributed-cache/
 
<http://www.brickendon.com/articles/achieving-low-latency-using-distributed-cache/>

Best,
D.

> On Jul 14, 2015, at 3:32 PM, Paul B. Henson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Marvin Addison
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:33 AM
>> 
>> Correct. What makes this acceptable in many if not most cases is that the 
>> lost
>> state is SSO state where the effect on the user is to log in again. As 
>> failure
>> modes go, that's graceful behavior.
> 
> Arguably true, but still not optimal :). Contrary to what seems to be the 
> average deployment, I also encrypt the cluster replication traffic over the 
> wire, so I perhaps have stricter requirements for perfection than generally 
> considered ;).
> 
>> Peer-to-peer replication incurs a cost and in my experience the failure 
>> modes of
>> replication are orders of magnitude worse than anything I've seen with
>> memcached. Perhaps over time Hazelcast will prove itself both reliable and 
>> fault
>> tolerant, but it's patently new technology at this point and needs some road
>> time to convince me.
> 
> I load tested it pretty heavily including random node restarts and it never 
> blipped. We've been running it in production for about a year and a half and 
> I haven't seen a single problem (knock on wood). We've probably done at least 
> 4-5 rolling updates since then where we pulled a node out of the cluster and 
> then stuck it back in, I'm unaware of any user facing issues or unnecessary 
> re-authentications. In any case, I'm pretty happy with it :), and wouldn't 
> really want to trade it out for memcached.
> 
> Thanks…
> 
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