Tibco Debuts Distributed Caching Platform

ActiveSpaces, launched last month, acts similarly to a distributed cache, letting systems hold large amounts of real-time data in memory and allowing different applications to access that data very quickly. The offering comprises a messaging component to provide proactive notification, so that when data changes, the new data is pushed out to users subscribed to a particular feed. A standard database query returns static results, while ActiveSpaces provides data that updates continuously in real