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Faster CPU does not eliminate GC pauses if your workload consumes a large amount of RAM. This is one of the other benefits which Zing provides.

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You can load balance your app for 3.5k $ on additional server. By reducing load, time spend in GC will be less. Additionality by having more hardware you can use more aggressive strategy[0].

[0]http://www.cakesolutions.net/teamblogs/low-pause-gc-on-the-j...

I have taken Zing for a spin on 24 c3.8xl ec2 instances running Elasticsearch with 32G heaps and just under 2 billion indexed documents with millions of updates/day. The results are considerably better. If I just went up to 30 or even 50 ec2 instances on HotSpot/Openjdk, I would see no performance benefit with regard to GC. And I have performed this test. I'm not saying dont use Java because of GC, but I am saying don't overestimate the value of more efficient garbage collection in any case.

Shoutout to the Azul guys, Simon, Elaine and Paul for coming on-site and watch me compile all their extensions on Amazon Linux and help me perform all the testing.

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