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Chronicle Map

About

Chronicle Map is a super-fast, in-memory, non-blocking, key-value store, designed for low-latency, and/or multi-process applications such as trading and financial market applications. See Features doc for more information.

The size of a Chronicle Map is not limited by memory (RAM), but rather by the available disk capacity.

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Figure 1. Overview

Use cases

Chronicle Map is used in production around the world for:

  • real-time trading systems. Chronicle Map provides in-memory access speeds, and supports ultra-low garbage collection. Chronicle Map can support the most demanding of applications.

  • highly concurrent systems. Chronicle Map supports multiple readers and writers, distributed across multiple machines.

Why use Chronicle Map?

Chronicle Map is:

  • fast. Millions of operations per second, with low and stable microsecond latencies for reads and writes. Write queries scale well up to the number of hardware execution threads in the server. Read queries never block each other.

  • reliable. Chronicle Software have a “chaos monkey” test which verifies Chronicle Map multi-master replication in the face of node and network failures. The map can optionally be persisted to disk.

  • in production at banks and hedge funds, globally.

  • built using lessons learnt from real-world experience solving real-world problems.

  • open source (standard version), and in use at hundreds of sites around the world.

Our offering

Chronicle Software provides full support for Chronicle Map, consulting to help you make best use of the product, and can also deliver projects using a mix of our resources and your own.

Replication

See Chronicle Map Replication for more information.


Documentation

The Chronicle Map documentation comprises:

Table 1. Documentation

Document

Purpose

CM_Features

Features description.

CM_Replication

Replication explanation.

CM_Tutorial

Tutorial.

CM_FAQs

Frequently asked questions.

CM_Download

Downloading the software.

CM_Updates

Updates from Chronicle Map version 2.

CM_Compatibility_and_Versioning

Compatibility and Versioning description.

Linked documentation is contained in the docs folder.

Chronicle Software Release Notes

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