Case Study: Wolters Kluwer Health achieves up to 20× faster data-grid loads and accelerated mission-critical processing with GigaSpaces XAP MemoryXtend

Supporting Data Growth and Faster Processing of Mission-Critical Data with GigaSpaces XAP MemoryXtend

Wolters Kluwer Health’s Sentri7 patient-surveillance system delivers near real‑time clinical decision support to hospitals, so it must be highly performant, reliable and scalable. The team faced long downtime for grid restarts and data loads—often 30–60 minutes—creating bottlenecks when applying IT maintenance, adding patient data or rolling out new code.

They adopted GigaSpaces XAP MemoryXtend to extend the in‑memory data grid onto SSDs while keeping indexes and metadata in RAM, enabling massively parallel local flash loads and eliminating bulk SQL reads. In tests with an ~80 GB dataset, load times that once took up to 40 minutes ran up to 20x faster, removing database I/O bottlenecks and improving availability and scalability cost‑effectively.

Wolters Kluwer Health

Paul Kudrle

Team Lead