Persistent Regions
Introduction
This example demonstrates VMware GemFire persistent regions.
The data for a region resides in memory in the JVM for the server. When a region is persistent, the data for that region is also preserved in a disk store. The disk store uses a directory in a file system to save the operations on regions. Unlike non-persistent regions, the data for a persistent region is available even after a period where no servers for that region are running.
This example assumes you have installed JDK11 and GemFire.
Steps
From the gemfire-examples/persistence directory, build the example, and run unit tests.
$ ../gradlew build
Next start a locator, start a server, create a disk store, and create a persistent region.
$ gfsh run --file=scripts/start.gfshRun the example to increment an entry the region.
$ ../gradlew run
Observe that the first time an initial value is used.
Initialized counter to 0
Incremented counter to 1Restart down the server.
$ gfsh run --file=scripts/restart.gfsh
Run the example to increment an entry the region.
$ ../gradlew run
Observe that the second time the previous value is used.
Retrieved counter of 1
Incremented counter to 2Shut down the system.
$ gfsh run --file=scripts/stop.gfsh