ehcache usage statistics

Since ehcache-1.2 was released a few days ago, there have been plenty of people taking a peek at it.

It is sort of fun to look at the web traffic and downloads of ehcache since the project inception in 2003. The first jump happened in December 2004 with the release of ehcache-1.1. There was steady growth after that and then another jump with the release of 1.2. To date there have been direct 31,796 downloads from the SourceForge site.

The thing that is a little harder to measure is how many people’s machines it is sitting on. Ehcache is included with the very popular Hibernate and Spring frameworks, along with lots of other things. That ease of redistribution is a killer advantage of open source.

Web Traffic

Downloads

By Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003. Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.