Distributed Concurrency Control

Question

I\'ve been working on this for a few days now, and I\'ve found several solutions but none of them incredibly simple or lightweight. The problem is basically this: We have a cl

Answer 1

You might also consider Cacheonix for distributed locks. Unlike anything else mentioned here Cacheonix support ReadWrite locks with lock escalation from read to write when needed:

ReadWriteLock rwLock = Cacheonix.getInstance().getCluster().getReadWriteLock();
Lock lock = rwLock.getWriteLock();
try {
  ...
} finally {
  lock.unlock();
}

Full disclosure: I am a Cacheonix developer.