BREAK UP DATABASE BOTTLENECKS
Do you have an application that suffers from a database bottleneck? Terracotta can help remove that bottleneck by helping you take some of the load off your overburdened database, without requiring significant changes to the application itself.
Depending on the use case, your savings can be quite large. Some Terracotta customers have been able to skip spending millions of dollars on clustered database licenses, because with Terracotta in place they were able to run their applications with a dramatically reduced database footprint - and while enjoying this savings they realized better performance and scalability as well. Plus their developers were able to spend more time working on features that customers wanted versus tuning issues.
Essentially, Terracotta provides you a high performance, scalable, and persistent, data sharing service that gives you clustered data without the expense of a clustered database. Plus, in many cases, no code changes are needed to use it, so the integration and deployment costs can be really low.
HOW DOES TERRACOTTA DO THIS?
With Terracotta, critical temporary application data can be shared between application servers without any need to write such data to a database. The database only needs to be concerned with what is does best, storing data related to completed business work flows - data needed for longer term business needs like reporting and ad hoc queries. All data about incomplete user or process workflows, such as user session information, or progress through processes like an e-tail shopping cart check out, can be kept safe and sound in Terracotta, ready for immediate retrieval in the event of a server failure or application restart.
