This is a guest post by Greg Luck, Founder and CTO, Ehcache . Is Ehcache a NoSQL store? No, I would not characterise it as that, but I have seen it used for some NoSQL use cases. In these situations it compared very well — with higher performance and more flexible consistency than the well-known NoSQL stores. Let me explain. Ehcache is the de facto open source cache for Java. It is used to boost p