Scale By The Bay 2018: Kuassi Mensah, Reactive Java Programming: a new Asynchronous Database...

Reactive Applications require non-blocking database access; the existing JDBC API leads to blocked threads, threads scheduling, and contention. For high throughput and large-scale deployment, the Java community needs a standard asynchronous API for database access where user threads never block. This session presents a new Java standard proposal for accessing SQL databases. This new API is completely non-blocking. It is not intended to be an extension to, or a replacement for, JDBC but, rather, an entirely separate API that provides completely non-blocking access to the same databases as JDBC. This presentation examines the API, its execution model, code samples, a demo of a prototype, and the next steps.

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