While working on a data set it is important that it stays easily and quickly accessible. Hibernate second-level caching with Coherence offers applications a resource optimized solution that keeps frequently used data in memory, by distributing it among different application instances, or sharing it with one or more dedicated cache machines. This article describes the knowledge that we gained through using the Oracle Coherence Community Edition for Hibernate second-level caching and gives a general overview of how this product can be used with Java applications running on Kubernetes.

Author: Viktor Kozlovszky