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ben-manes/caffeine

A high performance caching library for Java observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/ben-manes/caffeine · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

85/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 58
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 124.5
  • age_days: 4281
  • days_rel: 123
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 5

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

17834 stars · 1710 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Caffeine is a high-performance, near-optimal in-memory caching library for Java with a Guava-inspired API. It supports size-based eviction, time-based expiration, asynchronous loading and refreshing, reference-based keys/values, eviction listeners, and access statistics.

Use cases

  • cache expensive computation results in memory
  • evict entries when a maximum cache size is exceeded
  • expire cache entries after a time-to-live
  • asynchronously refresh stale cache entries
  • track cache hit and miss statistics
  • replace Guava cache for better performance

When to choose

  • you need a fast in-memory cache on the JVM
  • you want Guava-like caching with better hit rates
  • you need flexible eviction, expiration, and refresh policies

When to avoid

  • you need a distributed or persistent cache
  • your application is not on the JVM

Facets

library · maturity stable

caching performance developer-tools backend jvm in-memory-cache eviction guava-inspired jcache

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