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March 20, 2007
JBossCache versus Terracotta
posted by ariI recently cohosted a webinar with Filip Hanik who is PMC lead on Tomcat and Tribes for Apache. (You will need the Raindance player to view this.)
The gist is that Terracotta recently ran ourselves through JBoss's own benchmark for a customer and found that while JBoss was doing 10 - 100 ops per second (depending on the load script used), Terracotta was doing 2000 - 4000. It is worth looking at the webinar to learn about the use case, the customer's architecture under JBoss and their desired architecture goals. The webinar does go into detail on how Terracotta works and perhaps why the performance differences.
I am very excited to have helped this customer. The benchmark differences translated to the real-world use case. The customer now needs less application code (many tricks were being done to work around JBossCache's performance) and fewer servers in order to handle the same volume of web user traffic.
I am going to write an article shortly on how Terracotta is delivering such high transaction volumes. I expect to post it here by end of the week.
--Ari