Chapter 1. Data Grid 8

Data Grid 8 introduces significant changes from previous Data Grid versions, including a whole new architecture for server deployments.

While this makes certain aspects of migration more challenging for existing environments, the Data Grid team believe that these changes benefit users by reducing deployment complexity and administrative overhead.

In comparison to previous versions, migration to Data Grid 8 means you gain:

And Data Grid 8 continues to give you the best possible in-memory datastorage capabilities built from tried and trusted, open-source technology.

This documentation focuses on Data Grid 7.3 to Data Grid 8 migration but is still applicable for 7.x versions, starting from 7.0.1.

If you are planning a migration from Data Grid 6, this document might not capture everything you need. You should contact Red Hat support for advice specific to your deployment before migrating.

As always, please let us know if we can help you by improving this documentation.

To start using Data Grid 8, you either:

This following information describes the available component downloads for bare metal deployments, which are different to previous versions of Data Grid.

Also see:

Maven repository

Data Grid 8 no longer provides separate downloads from the Red Hat customer portal for the following components:

Instead of making these components available as downloads, Data Grid provides Java artifacts through a Maven repository. This change means that you can use Maven to centrally manage dependencies, which provides better control over dependencies across projects.

You can download the Data Grid Maven repository from the customer portal or pull Data Grid dependencies from the public Red Hat Enterprise Maven repository. Instructions for both methods are available in the Data Grid documentation.

Data Grid Server

Data Grid Server is distributed as an archive that you can download and extract to host file systems.

The archive distribution contains the following top-level folders:

├── bin 1
├── boot 2
├── docs 3
├── lib 4
├── server 5
└── static 6

The server folder is the root directory for Data Grid Server instances and contains subdirectories for custom code libraries, configuration files, and data.

You can find more information about the filesystem and contents of the distributions in the Data Grid Server Guide.

Source code

Uncompiled source code for each Data Grid release.