Terracotta, a provider of enterprise Java scalability infrastructure
software, has announced the availability of Terracotta 3.1, which includes
Terracotta for Hibernate.
Terracotta for Hibernate is a plug-in distributed cache for the widely used
Hibernate Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework. Coupled with Terracotta’s
recent acquisition of the popular Java caching framework, Ehcache, Terracotta
3.1 marks another milestone in the company's quest to deliver simple scalability
to a wider range of organizations that build software using the Java platform,
according to Terracotta officials.
“Terracotta 3.1 fills a long-standing gap in object-relational mapping
technology, one that has driven unnecessarily high database spending for a few
years,” said Ari Zilka, chief technology officer and co-founder of Terracotta,
in a statement. “Hibernate combined with Terracotta gives developers the
development simplicity they sought in ORMs in the first place, with the high
throughput their customers demand, along with less tuning hassle, all for
dramatically lower cost.”
By managing frequently accessed data in Terracotta, Hibernate users no
longer need to provision databases for peak load or purchase expensive database
clustering features, Zilka added. This can drive large cost savings for their
organizations while delivering a higher quality of service to their end users,
he said.
According to the company, Terracotta for Hibernate capabilities in
Terracotta 3.1 include:
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High-Performance, Coherent Distributed
Cache—Increase application capacity by 10 times by reducing database load
from 30 to 90 percent;
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Unmatched Workload Visualization—Terracotta
for Hibernate’s dashboard is the only product that provides a clusterwide view
of all Hibernate activity, showing you at a glance how much load is taken off
your database. Get individual server statistics, as well as aggregate clusterwide
views of key Hibernate and cache statistics;
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Hibernate Optimized for
Clustered Operation—Terracotta for Hibernate uses the Terracotta
scalability platform to optimize Hibernate in the context of a cluster of
application servers;
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Runtime Configuration and
Control—Developers and operators gain runtime control over critical cache
settings like per region cacheability and time-to-live (TTL) and time-to-idle (TTI)
parameters; and
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Broad Container Support—Terracotta
3.1 supports a wide array of Java containers, including Apache Tomcat, Oracle
Weblogic, Jetty, JBoss and Sun Glassfish.
Terracotta 3.1 is available for download at www.terracotta.org.
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