PRESS
RELEASE
Software
AG Upgrades Terracotta In-Memory Data Management Open Source Offerings
- Contributes
industry leading off-heap storage under Apache license
- Strengthens
commitment to existing open source projects
Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) announced several
production-ready updates and improvements for its open source projects that
form the core of Terracotta In-Memory Data Management platform, a platform used
for boosting performance, scalability, and building real-time applications.
Matthias Braeger,
software engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,
said: “We control and monitor technical equipment on a 24/7 basis across the
CERN site and rely upon highly scalable, reliable, flexible systems. Therefore,
we really appreciate Software AG’s commitment to open source software as it
enables us to cluster projects already using Ehcache. Moreover, we can better leverage in-memory
data management to derive real-time insights from sensor data to help us manage
the technical infrastructure of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).”
Software AG’s
Terracotta helps developers easily leverage in-memory storage for current and
emerging data workloads. By holding data in-memory, existing applications can
be accelerated so more customers can be served and conventional database
storage and license costs saved.
Key extra
functionality delivered as part of Terracotta Open Source Kit (4.3) includes:
- Distributed
storage: developers can store data in a distributed, highly fault-tolerant
cluster;
- Off-heap
storage: applications can use Terracotta to store data outside of the
normal Java heap – several terabytes on each node versus a few gigabytes
that Java heap supports;
Manish Devgan, Senior
Director of Product Strategy & Management, Software AG noted: “The
Terracotta platform, serving as the backbone of Ehcache – the most widely used
caching technology in the industry - has been known for many years for
standards support and commitment to open source projects. These new
contributions deepen that commitment and enhance Terracotta further as being
the leading In-Memory Data Management platform.”
Developers can
download the source code for Terracotta 4.3 open source kit or become a
contributor: http://terracotta.org/community/source. Additional information can be found on the
Terracotta community Big Data blog: http://blog.terracotta.org/.