Terracotta 10.3 | Ehcache API Developer Guide | Hybrid Caching | Overview of Hybrid Caching
 
Overview of Hybrid Caching
A full restartable CacheManager stores all of its cache data in server off-heap. A hybrid restartable CacheManager stores only some (explained in Configuring a Hybrid Cache section below) of its cache data in server off-heap. The off-heap tier in this scenario is backed by a disk, meaning that the entries in the off-heap tier are a subset of the entries in the disk, and the disk provides crash-resilience to the cache data. This has the following advantages:
*Cache size can exceed the available off-heap memory.
*Predictable low latencies are guaranteed at very large scale.
*Crash-resilience (see Fast Restartability) is provided to the cache data.
Ehcache provides the flexibility of configuring hybrid at the CacheManager level. Thus, we could have full as well as hybrid cache managers on the same Terracotta Server.
Because of the random-access read/write pattern of hybrid, it is recommended to use hybrid with Solid State Drives (SSDs) only.
In the subsequent sections, we'll refer to a hybrid restartable CacheManager simply as a hybrid CacheManager, because a non-restartable hybrid CacheManager does not exist.
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