It is claimed to be intended for systems that require high availability, high scalability and low latency, particularly in cases when traditional relational database management systems provide insufficient throughput, or insufficient performance.
[1] Tangosol Coherence was created by Cameron Purdy and Gene Gleyzer, and initially released in December, 2001.
[2] Oracle Corporation acquired Tangosol Inc., the original owner of the product, in April 2007, at which point it had more than 100 direct customers.
[3] Tangosol Coherence was also embedded in a number of other companies' software products, some of which belonged to Oracle Corporation's competitors.
[8] These patterns implement features such as messaging, work distribution and data replication across wide area networks with Coherence.