Can Gemfire be used like Big Memory Go as a L2 cache provider with hibernate? Using hibernate XML files , not annotations. If an applications uses lots of redundant hibernate calls, trying to see if Gemfire could integrate as a L2 cache to use as a off heap solution for caching.
Prior to Pivotal GemFire 9.0.x (e.g. Pivotal GemFire 8.2.x and earlier) GemFire had support for Hibernate L2 Cache; see here.
However, this was pulled in Pivotal GemFire 9 due to a lack of support on maintaining the feature and keeping it up-to-date with the latest versions of Hibernate.
SIDE NOTE:
I am not sure if you are aware of this... but Pivotal GemFire was released to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as the Apache Geode open source project (April, 2015) and became a TLP last year (~October 2016). Therefore, Apache Geode is the open source core for Pivotal GemFire, especially as of Pivotal GemFire 9.0.
I mention this because the work/code is not lost, it is mostly a WIP. See...
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-1972
I see that the feature branch (i.e. feature/GEODE-1972) does NOT exist yet.
There was discussion about this on the Geode dev list...
http://apache.markmail.org/thread/uvuzoohkfplkg46u
So, it probably just needs some "interests", maybe even some help/contributions from the community to move this along. A good opportunity to get involved and have an impact.
Cheers, John