san francisco california 2003 products bigmemory enterprise ehcache quartz scheduler web sessions terracotta enterprise suite in genius number of employees 50 100 parent software ag website www.terracotta.org terracotta inc. is a computer software company that specializes in increasing scalability availability and performance of real time big data applications . the company s flagship product is bigmemory an in memory data management suite . terracotta software is used in 190 countries on 500 000 deployments by more than one million developers . the company is owned by software ag . contents 1 history 2 products and projects 3 community 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit terracotta began as a provider of clustering technologies for java intended to simplify development deployment testing and management of enterprise applications by moving clustering and caching services to the java virtual machine jvm instead of the application . in august 2009 terracotta purchased ehcache . the company expanded the capabilities of ehcache and developed enterprise class products based on the open source project . 1 that year terracotta also acquired quartz the de facto standard job scheduler for java . software ag acquired terracotta in may 2011 . wolfram jost cto of software ag cited terracotta s scalability performance cloud enablement and in memory strategy as the most critical factors for the acquisition . 2 terracotta is the in memory technology in the software ag product stack . additionally its in memory processing provides the foundation for software ag s cloud offerings . 3 products and projects edit bigmemory a commercial in memory data management suite for real time big data applications that stores up to hundreds of terabytes in distributed memory across multiple servers without performance hits from the java garbage collector ehcache an open source standards based cache used to boost performance offload the database and simplify scalability 4 enterprise ehcache a commercial product based on the open source ehcache project quartz an open source job scheduling service quartz scheduler a commercial product based on the open source quartz project web sessions a commercial product that provides high availability for java servlet sessions allowing user session data to survive server restarts and failures 5 terracotta enterprise suite a commercial product that includes bigmemory web sessions and quartz scheduler in genius a native in memory platform for real time insight and intelligent action on big data . general availability is planned for the third quarter of calendar 2013 community edit in addition to selling commercial solutions terracotta leads several open source projects including ehcache with source code available for anonymous access on subversion . the software produced by these projects is used by an active community of over one million developers across 190 countries on 2.5 million deployments . terracotta provides a number of resources to facilitate communication amongst these users 6 forums free discussion boards where users can post questions as they integrate terracotta with their application email lists special interest email groups jira bugtracker an issue and feature tracking application where users can post issues or feature requests and see a work schedule for the development community awards edit dataweek s 2012 big data technology top innovator award 7 references edit luck greg . ehcache the year in review . greg luck s blog . greg luck . bruno eric j. software ag terracotta at process world 2011 . drdobbs.com . ubm . software ag acquires terracotta inc. a leader in in memory and cloud enabling technology . business wire . berkshire hathaway . ehcache overview . ehcache.org . ehcache for terracotta . terracotta for web sessions . terracotta.org . terracotta . terracotta community . terracotta.org . terracotta bigmemory wins 2012 big data technology top innovator award . terracotta.org . 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