LATEST UPGRADE TO TERRACOTTA EXTENDS VALUE OF LEADING JAVA CLUSTERING SOLUTION
Terracotta Version 2.7 Includes Breakthrough Distributed Garbage Collection Performance and Support for Glassfish and Spring
San Francisco—October 6, 2008 —Terracotta, a leader in infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, today announced the latest version of the industry's proven open source Java clustering solution, Terracotta version 2.7. The new version builds on the growing adoption of Terracotta in specific vertical markets and applications such as reservation systems, online gaming and information portals. In addition, it offers extended support for the Spring framework and Glassfish application server, and delivers enhanced scalability, performance and operational visibility. It is available immediately for download at www.terracotta.org.
By reducing development time and the number of application servers and databases required to support Java infrastructures, Terracotta lowers the operational and capital costs required to support highly available and scalable web applications. Terracotta offers the performance of local memory with the high availability of a database, eliminating the unyielding performance and reliability tradeoffs that constrain many Java applications today.
Terracotta has been successfully deployed in hundreds of applications across major industries such as e-commerce, healthcare, travel, telecommunications, banking and financial services. Based on these specific vertical use cases, Terracotta has distilled the best practice design patterns for various common software functions and is using them to build a set of open source reference implementations to reduce its customers' time to market. The first such reference implementation, using Terracotta in conjunction with products like Spring, Hibernate and MySQL will be released shortly.
"Terracotta continues to improve its innovative method for running Java applications," said Michael Coté, software industry analyst, Red Monk. "The model that the technology brings to the table creates possibilities for new ways of running large scale Java applications as well as new methods to store and use data that previously were the exclusive domain of the database. Terracotta's usefulness is enhanced by its continual expansion of support for popular Java frameworks, which this release of Terracotta also delivers with Spring and Glassfish."
New capabilities within Terracotta version 2.7 include:
- Enhanced Platform Support - Includes full support for the latest version of Spring 2.0.8 and Spring 2.5.2 application framework and the Glassfish V2.1 application server.
- Certified Patch Process- Accepts certified hot patches for systems running in production, enabling customers to install them without having to shut down their applications. This avoids costly downtime that can occur during a full upgrade maintenance cycle.
Automated High Availability Mode - An improved automated restart mode during failover simplifies operations. This feature automatically backs up cluster data for forensic purposes while simultaneously ensuring the safety and integrity of clustered data. Failover and restart is now easier while still ensuring data integrity.
Improved Distributed Garbage Collector (DGC) Performance and Visibility - The distributed garbage collector has been updated to use a generational collection algorithm which provides significant improvements in performance with little to no overhead. Depending on application use, the distributed generational garbage collector in Terracotta can provide dramatic improvements in throughput.
Online (Hot) Backup Support - Making backup easier than before, Terracotta now introduces a convenient and safe one-button hot backup feature. Operators now have a more convenient way to ensure that all Terracotta data files are safely backed up for later restoration.
TIM Update Center - The Terracotta Integration Module (TIM) Update Center accelerates application deployment. TIMs are sets of configuration elements and supporting Java classes packaged together as a single, pluggable module within the Terracotta configuration. Now, users simply use an intuitive and easy- to-use script provided with the Terracotta installation to easily list, install and update Terracotta Integration Modules directly from the Terracotta Forge.
Cluster-Wide Runtime Statistics - Customers can now view and monitor all cluster-related statistics in a single, concise page that provides information on runtime including CPU, heap utilization and transaction rates.
"Terracotta 2.7 delivers high availability, scalability, and operational control in an easily-deployable open source product that is within reach for more people in these times where cost concerns are paramount," said Ari Zilka, chief technology officer and co-founder of Terracotta. "Building on two years of direct customer experience, this release includes rich operational and visualization features, and tuning capabilities unmatched by competitive solutions, whether open source or proprietary."
About Terracotta, Inc.
Terracotta is infrastructure software that provides affordable and scalable high availability for Java applications. Companies use Terracotta to offload work from databases and application servers and to reduce their development efforts. Founded in 2003, Terracotta, Inc. is a private firm headquartered in San Francisco. More information is available at www.terracottatech.com. Terracotta's open source community is available at www.terracotta.org.
