Whitepaper: Caching Use Cases in the Enterprise

What You Can Learn from Hundreds of Ehcache Users Across the Globe

The results of a comprehensive survey of Ehcache users are available in the whitepaper below.

Key Findings:

  1. The overwhelming majority – 70 percent – of the survey respondents would like to implement a distributed cache to meet their expanding data and performance needs in the next 12-18 months.
  2. Using more memory – simply and effectively – is a key driver. 43 percent of respondents have servers with 32GB or more of RAM and 11 percent were over 64GB. 41 percent reported splitting up their data sets and stacking their JVMs to avoid garbage collection issues. 73 percent want to use technology such as BigMemory to remove heap size limitations.
  3. Distributed cache usage will encompass a wide range of industries and company sizes. Financial Services, Telco, Healthcare, eCommerce, Gaming and Government stand out as the most demanding in terms of performance, latency and reliability.
  4. Distributed caching prospects from the survey use a mix technology of open source and commercial stacks including Tomcat, Hibernate, Spring and Oracle Fusion.

Preview or download the full report below.