Ehcache

Standards-based cache that boosts performance, offloads your database, and simplifies scalability. Distributed cache solution, lighter than others, but also with less features, which is quite often used together with an ORM as a second level cache to cache objects and sometimes full queries.

First released2003
Developed byGreg Luck ,Terracotta, Inc
Latest stable version3
Open-sourceYes

Interesting facts

Started by being simple cache-solutions and evolved into being distributed (that is clustered, with synchronization among nodes) / memory - disk based, and lots of other features.

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