Difference between different type of caches and their significance

Question

What is the difference between the Ehcache and Guava Cache? In which scenarios would I use which type of caching?

Answer 1

Note: I am a developer working on Ehcache

The answer to your question depends on which features your cache needs to have inside your application.

• Guava caches have all the basic caching features.
• Ehcache has more advanced features - see 2.x line or upcoming 3.x line
  • Multi tier caching (disk in 2.x, offheap + disk in 3.x)
  • Clustering (2.x for now, soon in 3.x)
  • Refresh ahead or scheduled refresh (2.x for now)
  • JSR-107 API

So my advice is to look at your needs, play with both and then decide.