Ehcache ( ) is an open source
Java
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distributed cache
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for general-purpose caching,
Java EE
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and . Ehcache is available under an
Apache open source license.
Ehcache was developed by Greg Luck starting in 2003. In 2009, the project was purchased by Terracotta, which provides paid support. The software is still open-source, but some new major functionalities (Fast Restartability Consistency) are available only in commercial products, like Enterprise Ehcache and BigMemory, which are not open source. In March 2011, the
Wikimedia Foundation
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announced it would use Ehcache to improve the performance of its wiki projects.
However this was quickly abandoned after testing revealed problems with the approach.
The name Ehcache is a
palindrome
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.
See also
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Terracotta, Inc.
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Hazelcast
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In a H ...
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Memcached
Memcached (pronounced variously ''mem-cash-dee'' or ''mem-cashed'') is a general-purpose distributed memory-caching system. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of t ...
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Couchbase Server
Couchbase Server, originally known as Membase, is an open-source, distributed (shared-nothing architecture) multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package optimized for interactive applications. These applications may serve many c ...
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Infinispan
Infinispan is a distributed cache and key-value NoSQL data store software developed by Red Hat. Java applications can embed it as library, use it as a service in WildFly or any non-java applications can use it as remote service through TCP/IP.
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Free memory management software
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