Updated Oct 26, 2009 by Randgalt
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Comparison

Comparison of SHOP.COM Cache with other caching libraries

Comparison Chart

	Shop.com Cache	Memcached	Jboss	cache4j	EHCache	JCS
Non-Transactional	+Y+	+Y+	O	+Y+	?	+Y+
Any Size Key	+Y+	N	?	?	P	P
Any Size Data	+Y+	N	?	?	P	P
Reg Ex Key Matching	+Y+	N	?	?	N	+Y+
Iterate Keys	+Y+	N	NL	N	N	NL
Data stored to disk	+Y+	N	+Y+	N	+Y+	+Y+
Associative Keys	+Y+	N	N	N	N	N
Auto-GC based on TTL	+Y+	Y (note 1)	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+
100% Java	+Y+	N	P	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+
Pluggable Architecture	+Y+	N	+Y+	N	+Y+	+Y+
In-process cache	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+
External, Shared Cache	+Y+	N	+Y+	N	+Y+	+Y+
Unlimited Objects in Cache	+Y+	?	P	?	N	N (note 2)
Container/Platform Neutral	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+
Horizontally Scalable	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	N	+Y+	+Y+
Simple/Clean API	+Y+	+Y+	N	+Y+	N	Y (note 3)
Self-contained - No third party libraries	+Y+	+Y+	N	+Y+	N	N
No XML	+Y+	+Y+	N	N	N	+Y+
Cache any Serializable object	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+	+Y+
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