There are plenty of "distributed hash table" solutions for Java, some are at least as old as memcached. It's true that large heaps (multiple GBs) can cause lon

There are plenty of "distributed hash table" solutions for Java, some are at least as old as memcached. It's true that large heaps (multiple GBs) can cause long GC pause times (which is one of the problems Azul tried to solve). This can be mitigated by simply running more cache servers with smaller heaps.