Apache Geode region vs cache

Question

When defining caches within lets say EhCache we define multiple caches like employee, departments etc. In similar fashion, do we define separate regions within Apache Geode?

Answer 1

From About Apache Geode:

Caches are an abstraction that describe a node in a Geode cluster.

Within each cache, you define data regions. Data regions are analogous to tables in a relational database and manage data in a distributed fashion as name/value pairs.

So yes, as an analogy you can think of the Apache Geode Cache as the EhCache CacheManager, and the Apache Geode Region as the EhCache Cache.

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