Terracotta, the leader in simple scalability for Java applications, today announced the immediate availability of Terracotta for Caching, a high-performance drop-in distributed cache product line. Terracotta for Caching incorporates the recently acquired JSR 107 standard-based Ehcache, the world’s most popular caching solution used by most Global 1000 companies. Customers now can get the simplicity and performance of Ehcache with the scalability of Terracotta, all from the company that is solving scalability issues for the world’s largest and most demanding Java applications.

The combination of Ehcache, an industry-standard caching API, and Terracotta’s proven data management infrastructure creates the world’s leading distributed caching product line. Terracotta simultaneously delivers the scale, performance, data coherence and availability that enterprise customers need from distributed caches today. Terracotta also provides application developers and operators with unparalleled visibility and control, allowing them to continuously assess the efficacy of their caching strategies and optimization with no application downtime.

“The initial reaction from the Ehcache community to the alpha version of Ehcache-1.7.0 has been overwhelmingly positive. In 1.7, developers can turn on Terracotta Clustering with a one-line change in ehcache.xml, and then turn on each cache they want clustered with another one-line change. There are no code changes - it could not be simpler,” said Greg Luck, Ehcache chief technology officer at Terracotta. “Ehcache is the most widely deployed caching framework in the world today, and for current Ehcache users and people looking to add a distributed cache to new applications, this new product makes a lot of sense. It offers high scalability and performance with serious data coherence guarantees, and it is standards-based and open source.”

Terracotta for Caching products provide a smooth upgrade path from single-node Ehcache deployments all the way to multi-node, high throughput, coherent distributed caches, making it easy for customers to add more capacity as the demand for their applications grows, whether in traditional infrastructures or highly virtualized environments such as public and private clouds.

“Terracotta for Caching extends the popularity and mass adoption of Ehcache to organizations that require distributed caching to support their critical applications. It provides a simple, non-disruptive upgrade from a single-node Ehcache deployment all the way to multi-node, high throughput, coherent distributed caches, making it easy for customers to add the additional capabilities and support they need at the appropriate time,” said Ari Zilka, co-founder and chief technology officer of Terracotta. “Given the ease-of-use and wide adoption of Ehcache, and the simple scalability of the Terracotta platform, customers can use these products out of the box for both new applications and for those already using Ehcache, and easily scale them up, particularly in private clouds where databases can present bottlenecks to growth.”

The Terracotta for Caching product line is available immediately. All three versions incorporate the Ehcache API. They include:

Ehcache DX – High-performance Ehcache standalone and peer-to-peer replicated cache with enterprise support, monitoring, management and visualization;

Ehcache EX – The same industry-standard high-performance Ehcache running on the award-winning Terracotta Server Array for high throughput, scalable distributed cache applications with guaranteed data coherence, along with high availability, enterprise support, monitoring, management and visualization;

Ehcache FX – Distributed cache infrastructure software for massive scale; it incorporates the industry-standard Ehcache API and high throughput Terracotta Server Array with data striping to partition cache data for extreme scale, and includes enterprise support, monitoring, management and visualization.

These new distributed cache products are complemented by the recently-released Terracotta for Hibernate product, a plug-in distributed cache for the widely-used Hibernate Object-relational mapping (ORM) framework. It cuts database load by 30-90 percent, boosts application throughput by up to 10 times, and cuts latency to the single-digit millisecond range.

“Our rapid delivery of an integrated caching product line demonstrates Terracotta’s commitment to the Ehcache and Terracotta customer communities, and to being the standard for simple scalability for Java applications,” said Amit Pandey, chief executive officer of Terracotta. “The acquisition of Ehcache was a defining moment for Terracotta but the delivery of the exact products that our customers need to scale their applications is infinitely more important.”

About Terracotta, Inc.

Terracotta is infrastructure software that provides affordable and scalable high availability for Java applications. Companies use Terracotta to offload work from databases and application servers and to reduce their development efforts. Founded in 2003, Terracotta, Inc. is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco. More information is available at http://www.terracottatech.com/. Terracotta’s open source community is available at http://www.terracotta.org/.

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