Oracle Coherence Review!
April 14, 2017
Oracle Coherence Review!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Coherence
Our user interface uses Oracle Coherence cache in the middle office space in an investment bank. Our UI serves to display as well as operate on data. All data is stored in Oracle DB, but obviously, we need caches to boost performance. Hitting a DB every time new information is necessary is just too much.
- I think it is pretty robust. Doesn't break.
- A very sophisticated failover logic. Data rarely gets lost.
- Highly configurable depending on how frequently and quickly data needs to be retrieved.
- I can't really come up with too many flaws, but possibly a bit expensive considering there are good open source caches like Ehcache.
- It does serve its purpose well: being a robust cache solution that provides faster data access to our applications.
- Regarding ROI, it all depends on a trade-off between cost, performance, robustness and support. Each team/company has to decide.
- Ehcache
I did not get involved with selecting Oracle Coherence. It was already implemented when I joined the team. As I mentioned, Ehcache is probably the most well-known competitor and it is an open source application. If I were to build a new application now, I would think first about Ehcache just because it is open source. But may consider choosing Oracle coherence depending on the budget.