Characteristics

• Written in the programming language Erlang which is suited for parallel programming and HA.
• Supports Ajax and Comet. RIA (Rich Internet Application) can be build easliy.
• Event driven architecture, the events corresponding to the elements in the web can be transparently handled in the framework.
• Clients have to code screen and event handlers only.
• Minimizes coding cost by supporting Convention over Configuration like Ruby on Rails.
• O/R mapping layer similar to Ruby on Rails' Active Record.
• Key value store having java library interface which can be used as high speed cache.

Scalability

Built-in clustering functionalities make constructing scalable system easy.

• Scalable horizontal distribution by clustering.
• Session replication and distributed cache system.

Cloud ready enterprise application foundation

Fermium and Fermion realize available and reliable cloud system.