ehcache/ehcache3

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Ehcache 3 is Java's most widely-used open-source caching library, offering a type-safe API, full JSR-107 (JCache) compliance, and tiered storage from heap to offheap to out-of-process. It integrates out of the box with Spring Caching and Hibernate and scales to terabyte-sized caches with Terracotta clustering.

Use cases

• cache database queries in a Java application
• add JCache/JSR-107 caching to Spring or Hibernate
• store cache data offheap to reduce GC pressure
• cluster caches across JVMs with Terracotta
• implement write-through and write-behind caching
• set cache expiry and eviction policies

When to choose

• you need a mature, standards-compliant JVM cache with Spring/Hibernate integration
• you want tiered heap/offheap/disk storage in-process
• you need JCache (javax.cache) provider support

When to avoid

• you need a standalone distributed cache server like Redis or Memcached
• your stack is not on the JVM
• you need multi-language client support

Facets

library · maturity stable

caching backend developer-tools performance jvm cross-platform jcache jsr-107 offheap-storage spring-cache hibernate terracotta distributed-cache

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