Terracotta, Inc., is a computer-software company that specializes in database applications.

The company is owned by Software AG.

[citation needed] Terracotta started as a provider of clustering technologies to move clustering and caching services to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) instead of the application.

[citation needed] In August 2009, Terracotta purchased Ehcache.

[citation needed] Software AG acquired Terracotta in May 2011.