diff --git a/bin/ycsb b/bin/ycsb
index 90010a7d6118b5f914089dd5a6d0d8b7fed70ccc..b731a45fe1585b4e40ce2f73254d153cc2a09d05 100755
--- a/bin/ycsb
+++ b/bin/ycsb
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ DATABASES = {
     "couchbase"    : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.CouchbaseClient",
     "dynamodb"     : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.DynamoDBClient",
     "elasticsearch": "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.ElasticSearchClient",
-    "gemfire"      : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.GemFireClient",
+    "geode"        : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.GeodeClient",
     "googledatastore" : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.GoogleDatastoreClient",
     "hbase094"     : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.HBaseClient",
     "hbase098"     : "com.yahoo.ycsb.db.HBaseClient",
diff --git a/distribution/pom.xml b/distribution/pom.xml
index cd9d04e40c50c47aeaf614071727fcb9665cabbb..9f17c43ec211d41997c04f763bd2918647f00726 100644
--- a/distribution/pom.xml
+++ b/distribution/pom.xml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ LICENSE file.
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
-      <artifactId>gemfire-binding</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>geode-binding</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/gemfire/src/main/conf/cache.xml b/gemfire/src/main/conf/cache.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 372e1c456b8c4a5e14f204d6983e93f44c6309eb..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/gemfire/src/main/conf/cache.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!-- 
-Copyright (c) 2012 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
-
-Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
-may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
-may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
-implied. See the License for the specific language governing
-permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
-LICENSE file.
--->
-
-<!DOCTYPE cache PUBLIC
-  "-//GemStone Systems, Inc.//GemFire Declarative Caching 6.5//EN"
-  "http://www.gemstone.com/dtd/cache6_5.dtd">
-<cache>
-  <region name="usertable" refid="PARTITION"/>
-</cache>
-
diff --git a/geode/README.md b/geode/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d4fe3a30405bee31e7c1214c79971ab9e0a0d87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/geode/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+<!--
+Copyright (c) 2014 - 2016 YCSB contributors. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
+may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
+may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+implied. See the License for the specific language governing
+permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
+LICENSE file.
+-->
+
+## Quick Start
+
+This section describes how to run YCSB on Apache Geode (incubating).
+
+### Get Apache Geode
+
+You can download Geode from http://geode.incubator.apache.org/releases/
+
+#### Start Geode Cluster
+
+Use the Geode shell (gfsh) to start the cluster. You will need to start
+at-least one locator which is a member discovery service and one or more
+Geode servers.
+
+Launch gfsh:
+
+```
+$ cd $GEODE_HOME
+$ ./bin/gfsh
+```
+
+Start a locator and two servers:
+
+```
+gfsh> start locator --name=locator1
+gfsh> start server --name=server1 --server-port=40404
+gfsh> start server --name=server2 --server-port=40405
+```
+
+Create the "usertable" region required by YCSB driver:
+```
+gfsh>create region --name=usertable --type=PARTITION
+```
+gfsh has tab autocompletion, so you can play around with various options.
+
+### Start YCSB workload
+
+From your YCSB directory, you can run the ycsb workload as follows
+```
+./bin/ycsb load geode -P workloads/workloada -p geode.locator=host[port]
+```
+(default port of locator is 10334).
+
+In the default mode, ycsb geode driver will connect as a client to the geode
+cluster. To make the ycsb driver a peer member of the distributed system
+use the property
+`-p geode.topology=p2p -p geode.locator=host[port]`
+
+Note:
+For update workloads, please use the property `-p writeallfields=true`
diff --git a/gemfire/pom.xml b/geode/pom.xml
similarity index 80%
rename from gemfire/pom.xml
rename to geode/pom.xml
index 3aa417eed820b56f2cbe3f991d96984158ddcb0e..17e012e9a1b4c7ca9a856f4001706a67dfb1748c 100644
--- a/gemfire/pom.xml
+++ b/geode/pom.xml
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ LICENSE file.
     <relativePath>../binding-parent</relativePath>
   </parent>
   
-  <artifactId>gemfire-binding</artifactId>
-  <name>Gemfire DB Binding</name>
+  <artifactId>geode-binding</artifactId>
+  <name>Geode DB Binding</name>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ LICENSE file.
 
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.gemstone.gemfire</groupId>
-      <artifactId>gemfire</artifactId>
-      <version>${gemfire.version}</version>
+      <groupId>org.apache.geode</groupId>
+      <artifactId>gemfire-core</artifactId>
+      <version>${geode.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.yahoo.ycsb</groupId>
@@ -47,10 +47,4 @@ LICENSE file.
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   
-  <repositories>
-    <repository>
-      <id>gemstone</id>
-      <url>http://dist.gemstone.com.s3.amazonaws.com/maven/release</url>
-    </repository>
-  </repositories>	
 </project>
diff --git a/gemfire/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/GemFireClient.java b/geode/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/GeodeClient.java
similarity index 81%
rename from gemfire/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/GemFireClient.java
rename to geode/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/GeodeClient.java
index 8cc7ea623305dc57321b942e2a4deb5a7ee31851..cdbfc96189ed635219e37bf28f2db960ef7eb43f 100644
--- a/gemfire/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/GemFireClient.java
+++ b/geode/src/main/java/com/yahoo/ycsb/db/GeodeClient.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright (c) 2013 - 2014 YCSB Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 - 2016 YCSB Contributors. All rights reserved.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
  * may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
@@ -42,17 +42,17 @@ import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.Vector;
 
 /**
- * VMware vFabric GemFire client for the YCSB benchmark.<br />
- * <p>By default acts as a GemFire client and tries to connect
- * to GemFire cache server running on localhost with default
- * cache server port. Hostname and port of a GemFire cacheServer
- * can be provided using <code>gemfire.serverport=port</code> and <code>
- * gemfire.serverhost=host</code> properties on YCSB command line.
+ * Apache Geode (incubating) client for the YCSB benchmark.<br /> 
+ * <p>By default acts as a Geode client and tries to connect
+ * to Geode cache server running on localhost with default
+ * cache server port. Hostname and port of a Geode cacheServer
+ * can be provided using <code>geode.serverport=port</code> and <code>
+ * geode.serverhost=host</code> properties on YCSB command line.
  * A locator may also be used for discovering a cacheServer
- * by using the property <code>gemfire.locator=host[port]</code></p>
+ * by using the property <code>geode.locator=host[port]</code></p>
  * 
- * <p>To run this client in a peer-to-peer topology with other GemFire
- * nodes, use the property <code>gemfire.topology=p2p</code>. Running
+ * <p>To run this client in a peer-to-peer topology with other Geode
+ * nodes, use the property <code>geode.topology=p2p</code>. Running
  * in p2p mode will enable embedded caching in this client.</p>
  * 
  * <p>YCSB by default does its operations against "usertable". When running
@@ -61,26 +61,24 @@ import java.util.Vector;
  * region. A cache.xml defining "usertable" region can be placed in the
  * working directory to override these region definitions.</p>
  * 
- * @author Swapnil Bawaskar (sbawaska at vmware)
- *
  */
-public class GemFireClient extends DB {
+public class GeodeClient extends DB {
 
-  /** property name of the port where GemFire server is listening for connections */
-  private static final String SERVERPORT_PROPERTY_NAME = "gemfire.serverport";
+  /** property name of the port where Geode server is listening for connections */
+  private static final String SERVERPORT_PROPERTY_NAME = "geode.serverport";
 
-  /** property name of the host where GemFire server is running */
-  private static final String SERVERHOST_PROPERTY_NAME = "gemfire.serverhost";
+  /** property name of the host where Geode server is running */
+  private static final String SERVERHOST_PROPERTY_NAME = "geode.serverhost";
 
   /** default value of {@link #SERVERHOST_PROPERTY_NAME} */
   private static final String SERVERHOST_PROPERTY_DEFAULT = "localhost";
 
-  /** property name to specify a GemFire locator. This property can be used in both
+  /** property name to specify a Geode locator. This property can be used in both
    * client server and p2p topology */
-  private static final String LOCATOR_PROPERTY_NAME = "gemfire.locator";
+  private static final String LOCATOR_PROPERTY_NAME = "geode.locator";
 
-  /** property name to specify GemFire topology */
-  private static final String TOPOLOGY_PROPERTY_NAME = "gemfire.topology";
+  /** property name to specify Geode topology */
+  private static final String TOPOLOGY_PROPERTY_NAME = "geode.topology";
 
   /** value of {@value #TOPOLOGY_PROPERTY_NAME} when peer to peer topology should be used.
    *  (client-server topology is default) */
@@ -90,16 +88,16 @@ public class GemFireClient extends DB {
 
   /**
    * true if ycsb client runs as a client to a
-   * GemFire cache server
+   * Geode cache server
    */
   private boolean isClient;
   
   @Override
   public void init() throws DBException {
     Properties props = getProperties();
-    // hostName where GemFire cacheServer is running
+    // hostName where Geode cacheServer is running
     String serverHost = null;
-    // port of GemFire cacheServer
+    // port of Geode cacheServer
     int serverPort = 0;
     String locatorStr = null;
 
@@ -159,7 +157,7 @@ public class GemFireClient extends DB {
   @Override
   public Status scan(String table, String startkey, int recordcount,
       Set<String> fields, Vector<HashMap<String, ByteIterator>> result) {
-    // GemFire does not support scan
+    // Geode does not support scan
     return Status.ERROR;
   }
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index acc35128b22b4e198dd70a80f012b30270164981..066ac0ed82638ca483e349e5c07953c70982393a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ LICENSE file.
     <cassandra.version>1.2.9</cassandra.version>
     <cassandra.cql.version>1.0.3</cassandra.cql.version>
     <cassandra2.cql.version>2.1.8</cassandra2.cql.version>
-    <gemfire.version>8.1.0</gemfire.version>
+    <geode.version>1.0.0-incubating.M1</geode.version>
     <infinispan.version>7.2.2.Final</infinispan.version>
     <kudu.version>0.6.0</kudu.version>
     <openjpa.jdbc.version>2.1.1</openjpa.jdbc.version>
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ LICENSE file.
     <module>distribution</module>
     <module>dynamodb</module>
     <module>elasticsearch</module>
-    <module>gemfire</module>
+    <module>geode</module>
     <module>googledatastore</module>
     <module>hbase094</module>
     <module>hbase098</module>